Childs Play (website)

Childs Play
Type of site
Child sexual abuse material sharing
Available inEnglish
LaunchedApril 2016
Current statusOffline

Childs Play [sic] was a website on the darknet featuring child sexual abuse material that operated from April 2016 to September 2017, which at its peak was the largest of its class.[1][2][3][4][5] The site was concealed by being run as a hidden service on the Tor network. After running the site for the first six months, owner Benjamin Faulkner of North Bay, Ontario, Canada, was captured by the United States Department of Homeland Security. For the remaining eleven months the website was owned and operated by the Australian Queensland Police Service's Task Force Argos, as part of Operation Artemis.

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  2. ^ Brad Hunter (2017-10-12). "Canadian man was king of kiddie porn". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
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