Interpol has saved 50 children and prosecuted nine sex offenders after uncovering an international paedophile ring that was sharing child abuse images on the dark web. Police believe there are still about 100 children who have not yet been located. CNN reports that offenders have already been prosecuted in Thailand, Australia and police in nearly 60 countries are involved in the investigation. Interpol said it launched ‘Operation Blackwrist’ in 2017 after discovering material depicting the abuse of 11 boys all aged under 13 on the dark web, a part of the Internet that cannot be found by mainstream search engines. The images were on a subscription-based website that published new images weekly to almost 63 000 users worldwide. In June 2018, the website's main administrator, Thailand-based Montri Salangam, was sentenced to 146 years in prison on charges of child rape and human trafficking. He had abused 11 boys – including his nephew – and had lured children to his home with food and Internet access. A nursery school teacher who was close to Tokputza was sentenced to 36 years in prison on the same charges.