190 people have been arrested and 18 children have been rescued in a major crackdown on child pornography in Europe, the US and elsewhere.
Most of the arrests in Operation Orion took place in May in the US, but suspects were also picked up in Argentina, Britain, the Philippines and Spain.
Operation Orion targeted individuals who possessed, received, transported, distributed, advertised or produced images or videos of child pornography.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton has said that many of the child exploitation cases under Operation Orion began with a child or teen chatting with someone he or she met online.
Among those arrested was a 35-year-old man in Louisiana.
He is suspected of using the seven-year-old he babysat to make child pornography.
A 35-year-old in Oklahoma was arrested after it was discovered that he offered money for sex to a 14-year-old victim he met on a social networking site.
In Michigan, a 54-year-old allegedly persuaded an underage boy to join him in illegal sexual conduct that he then photographed.
A 28-year-old was found to have more than 1,200 images and 109 videos of suspected child pornography on computers and media storage devices.
In Los Angeles eight men were arrested, including one who met his alleged 12-year-old victim on Facebook, after US agents pretended to be her online.
