Spot where there isn't a pervert

THIS map should strike fear into the heart of every parent in Britain - for each RED DOT shows where a pervert has downloaded vile CHILD PORN from the internet.

In just three years detectives have identified almost 14 MILLION sickening downloads across the length and breadth of the country.

As the map graphically proves, it's easier to see where there ISN'T a paedophile than where there is.

And places shown as clear-towns like Cromer in Norfolk and Keswick in Cumbria that we've labelled here-could be so simply because of limited internet access.

Flint Waters-the head of the American taskforce that drew up the map-said: "The raw numbers are shocking. None of us had a clue it was this widespread. Politicians in the UK need to look at this map."

His Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce was set up to TRACK DOWN perverts exchanging child porn on home computers across the world.

Using pioneering technology and undercover reasearch it can trace the internet computer addresses of people who are trading the images.

And it has now built up the terrifying map we publish today with 13.7 MILLION transactions.

Hundreds of thousands of perverts are collecting thousands of vile porn images each. And they are sharing them in underground networks.

Brutal

Mr Waters said: "These are movies and images capturing forever the destruction of innocence. They are extremely graphic and brutal crime scene images, depicting the most harrowing moments for a child.

"Many of the people trading in child pornography are also molesting children."

The taskforce-overseen by the US Department of Justice-is part of a coordinated international police blitz called Operation Peer Precision involving cops from 18 COUNTRIES.

Mr Waters developed the software that tracks child porn being shared by sex beasts by spotting each computer's unique internet address.

If the team suspects illegal downloading in the UK it tips off the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) agency and British police. Already it has sparked more than 1,000 prosecutions in Britain.

A spokesman for CEOP said: "Through this and other means we are turning technology on the offender in the same way they use technology to target victims.

"Anyone using the internet must realise it is not the anonymous world people think it is.

"When you go online you leave a forensic trail and we will follow you and track you down."

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