Dutch student gets 10 years for running a dark web site that accepts cryptocurrency

In the past, child porn collectors typically traded images among themselves in small groups, but the darknet has become a breeding ground for "anonymous" exchanges of child pornography and extreme images involving rape, torture, gore, and bestiality. In the Netherlands, Dutch student Michael Mohammad, 26 was entenced to 10 years on November 21 for child sexual abuse and distribution of extreme images. Since around 2012, Mohammad has been running a site called Dark Scandals where he accepted cryptocurrency in exchange for links or downloads depicting extreme and sexually explicit images. An investigation into this operation led to the discovery that in addition to bartering and selling images, Mohammad filmed himself raping several young girls, and directly manipulating or blackmailing dozens of young girls into sharing sesxually implicit images of themselves.