Ian Green set up 11 Facebook accounts to distribute images The ringleader of a worldwide child pornography network has been jailed for four years after admitting sharing up to 100,000 images on Facebook.
Convicted sex offender Ian Green, 45, from West Sussex, had pleaded guilty to making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.
Judge Charles Byers said it was a “sophisticated operation”.
“These are the sorts of images which right-thinking people can never condone,” he said.
“These are real children who are abused in order to satisfy the sexual pleasures of you and those who you seek to communicate with.”
The judge said Green and the other Facebook users he shared the images with were “exploiting these children in the worst possible way”.
Chichester Crown Court heard Green used 11 different Facebook accounts to distribute the images, along with pornographic videos of children.
He also shared the photographs, 724 of which were rated at the most extreme level of five, using email and MSN.
An international investigation into the ring began when police in Australia linked a number of Facebook accounts containing indecent images of children on the social-networking site to a user in the UK.
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