Alleged child porn distributor charged in US

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Ukrainian man who federal prosecutors said may be the most significant distributor of child pornography ever prosecuted in the United States was charged in New Jersey on Monday with operating a network of websites.

Maksym Shynkarenko, a 33-year-old from Kharkov, Ukraine, founded and operated a Ukraine-based child pornography website that had customers around the world and has resulted in 560 convictions throughout the U.S. alone, The U.S. attorney’s office for New Jersey said.

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