New front in child-porn war

That would be child traffickers in child porn. The arrest yesterday of a 28-year-old computer consultant in Detroit "signals a new front in the [US] government's response to the revelation that minors have been using Webcams to run their own child pornography Web sites," the New York Times reports. The Times adds that the arrest could have a crippling effect on this once-burgeoning business. The man was accused by Justin Berry, 19, of "luring him to Michigan when he was 13, molesting him and setting up a Web site that charged a monthly fee for videos of him performing various sex acts." Berry testified about his child-porn business in congressional hearings last month, after going public in a front-page New York Times story last December (see "Kids & Webcams" and "Porn revolution & teen girls").