Sep 16 - By Eliane Engeler, Associated Press Writer
The number of Web sites containing child pornography is increasing and more images show serious abuses, a U.N. expert said Wednesday.
Sep 9 - By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press Writer
A home day care provider was sentenced to 25 years in prison for letting her ex-boyfriend sexually abuse and film children, some of them infants, in her care.
Aug 12 - By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press Writer
A seldom-employed psychopath was sentenced Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison for making a huge cache of child pornography that shows him sexually assaulting a dozen children, including infants at a girlfriend's in-home day care.
Aug 7 - By Associated Press
Florida investigators say a man accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his cat. Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach is charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after detectives found more than 1,000 images on his home computer.
Jun 28 - By Associated Press
Swiss police say they have uncovered a child pornography ring involving more than 2,000 people in 78 countries.
Jun 19 - By Associated Press
Italian police said Saturday they had arrested 14 people and seized some 150,000 computer files in a major crackdown on online child pornography.
Apr 28 - By Gregory Katz, Associated Press Writer
The number of international Web sites showing sexual abuse of children has fallen by about 10 percent, but the images on these sites are more violent, a British Internet watchdog said Wednesday.
Apr 22 - By Rachel Nolan, Associated Press Writer
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved a new law Wednesday to require the vast majority of the country's Internet service providers to block child pornography sites.
Apr 7 - By Associated Press
A children's author who also volunteered at a local children's library has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony counts of child pornography offenses.
Oct 24 - By Associated Press
Operators of child pornography web sites will have no place to hide, under a program being started by the European Union.
Oct 1 - By Associated Press
Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country's biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries, authorities said Wednesday.
Sep 26 - By Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer
Congress is sending President Bush several bills that would tighten laws on child pornographers' use of the Internet.
Sep 17 - By Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer
Long-stalled legislation making it easier to prosecute those engaged in child pornography cleared the Senate Tuesday.
Aug 19 - By Associated Press
Authorities say a California sheriff's deputy and an attorney were among 55 men charged with possessing child pornography after an eight-month investigation.
Jul 29 - By Associated Press
New York's attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography.
Jul 21 - By Valerie Bauman, Associated Press Writer
New York's attorney general notified Comcast Corp. on Monday that the state will take legal action if the company — the nation's second-largest Internet service provider — doesn't agree to eliminate access to child pornography.
Jul 10 - By Valerie Bauman, Associated Press Writer
Two more Internet access providers have agreed to eliminate certain newsgroups that contain child pornography and purge their servers of child pornography Web sites in an agreement with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Jun 10 - By Associated Press
France is joining at least five other countries where Internet service providers block access to child pornography and to content linked to terrorism and racial hatred, the French interior minister said Tuesday.

Jun 10 - By Michael Gormley, Associated Press Writer
Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation's five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.
Jun 5 - By Associated Press
Australian police have arrested 70 people and removed four children from their homes as part of a six-month nationwide investigation of a global child pornography network, police said Thursday.
Mar 14 - By Associated Press
A judge sentenced a Canadian man to three years in prison Friday on child pornography charges involving more than 60 victims in Canada and England in what police called one of the largest child porn cases ever prosecuted in Canada.
Jul 15 - By Associated Press
Spanish police investigating a child pornography ring have arrested 66 people and seized computer hard drives containing 48 million photographs and video images, officials said Sunday.
Jul 9 - By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press Writer
A defense lawyer in a child pornography case let his client view the sexually graphic evidence in such "excruciating detail" that the victims are being abused anew, prosecutors charged Monday.
Jan 25 - By Associated Press
A man and two women have been accused of producing sexually explicit videos of children after an investigation that also revealed the man sexually abused babies as young as 3 months, authorities said Thursday.

Apr 4 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
Justin Berry, who for five years starred in his own Web cam child pornography business, told a House panel Tuesday that the Justice Department is moving too slowly to round up 1,500 pedophiles whose information he surrendered last year.