00:0426 men have been charged with more than 1,000 offenses after police infiltrated a secret
00:11online group accused of sharing violent child abuse material. Officers executed dozens of
00:18search warrants across Victoria and seized more than 100 electronic devices, uncovering about
00:2565,000 unique files, including more than 300 hours of child abuse videos. Child abuse material is just
00:31not images and videos. It's also when they talk about what they want to do and a lot of these
00:35offenders were doing that. So they were talking, they'd share photos of infants and then they would
00:39discuss what they'd like to do to those infants in a sexual type, like really graphic sexual nature.
00:44The year-long covert investigation by the AFP and Victoria Police targeted an encrypted messaging
00:52group where members allegedly shared disturbing images, videos and messages about abusing children.
00:59The sheer volume and the depravity we experienced in Beau specifically will stay with all of us.
01:07There's a lot of preparation that goes into these jobs. There's the investigation at the start,
01:12there's the execution of search warrants, there's the analysis of devices and then there's the brief
01:19the at the end and then there's the whole court proceedings. So it's just a really long time
01:23and you're dealing with the content the whole time. So it can get really heavy.
01:27Many of the men charged have already been convicted and sentenced to prison.
01:32The others remain before the courts.
01:34The others remain before the courts.
01:37Here a couple of people, the
01:39You
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