Creator of 'world's largest kiddie-porn site' gets 30 years in prison as police arrest 900 suspected users and rescue hundreds of exploited children

A man who federal prosecutors said was the creator and lead administrator of what's thought to be the world's largest child-pornography website has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, the FBI announced Friday.

Steven W. Chase, 58, of Naples, Florida, was sentenced this week in a federal courtroom in North Carolina on multiple child- pornography and child-exploitation charges.

Chase created a website called Playpen in August 2014 on Tor, an open network on the internet where users can communicate anonymously through 'hidden service' websites, the FBI said.


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