A month-long joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) operation targeting suspects involved with child pornography netted 190 arrests, including a Louisiana man, and resulted in 18 victims being identified and rescued, according to an ICE press release. 
 
 The operation focused on individuals, including a Louisiana man, suspected of possessing, receiving, transporting distributing, advertising or producing images or video of child pornography. 
 
 "With the advent of summer vacation, children may have more time and access to the Internet, making this a good time to talk to them about online dangers. Many of the child exploitation cases under Operation Orion began with a child or teen chatting with someone he or she met online," said ICE Director John Morton. "Let this operation be a warning to anyone who would think they can use the Internet to exploit children: we are out there looking for you, we will find you, and you will be prosecuted." 
 
 Operation Orion took place May 1-31. Arrests were made by HSI special agents and partner law enforcement agencies. The majority of arrests were made throughout the United States, but also included arrests in Spain, the Philippines, Argentina and the United Kingdom. 
 
 Those arrested included Cedric Conner, 35, of Lafayette, who was arrested May 4 in Lafayette for production of child pornography based on his sexual assault of a 7-year-old victim, whom Conner babysat. 
 
 Also arrested: 
 
 Andrew Hallock, 28, of Sebastian, Fla., arrested May 2 in Sebastian for possession of child pornography and illegal sexual enticement of a 15-year-old victim he met online. 
 
 Joshua Stewart, 23, of Rochester, N.Y., arrested in Rochester May 4 for coercion and enticement of a minor via the Internet, which began as "sexting" with the 13-year-old. 
 
 Andrew McKee, 35, of Oklahoma City, arrested in Garland, Texas, May 9 for coercion and enticement of a minor via the Internet. McKee met the 14-year-old victim on a social networking site and continued to harass the victim via texts, offering money in exchange for sex. ||||| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested 14 men in a secret, members-only child pornography website that involved 251 children, mostly boys, in the United States and five other countries, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. 
 
 Some of the men assumed female online personas to connect with the children, who ranged in age from three to 17 years, on popular social networks, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. 
 
 The alleged U.S. victims, who have been identified and contacted by authorities, were from 39 U.S. states. The majority were between 13 and 15 years old and all but a handful were boys. Authorities said 23 of the 251 victims were identified in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Belgium. 
 
 "Never before in the history of this agency have we identified and located this many minor victims in the course of a single child-exploitation investigation," said Daniel Ragsdale, the ICE deputy director. 
 
 Eleven of the men were charged in the Eastern District of Louisiana. 
 
 The website had more than 27,000 subscribers, many of whom have been charged in individual cases, according to James Kilpatrick, a program manager for the ICE Cyber Crime Center. 
 
 He did not have figures on how many suspected subscribers have been arrested on lesser charges but said at least 300 others in the United States and abroad are under investigation. 
 
 The underground website was a hidden service board on the Tor network of Darknet, investigators said, referring to a hidden online network sometimes used for illicit activities. 
 
 The website shared videos of boys enticed into providing sexually explicit material through Tor, which allows online anonymity by routing Internet traffic in a way that conceals a user's location, authorities said. 
 
 The men were charged with conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise. 
 
 The network was identified after an item was sent through the U.S. Postal Service to a child, said Kilpatrick. 
 
 That led authorities to the website's main administrator, Jonathan Johnson, 27, of Abita Springs, Louisiana, who has been in custody since June 13, 2013. Johnson faces 20 years to life in prison, said Kenneth Allen Polite, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. 
 
 Authorities said 20 of the child victims were from Louisiana, 19 from Texas, 12 from North Dakota and 10 from Colorado. 
 
 Ragsdale said ICE is seeing a growing trend of children being enticed into sharing sexually explicit material online. "We cannot arrest our way out of this problem: education is the key to prevention," he said. 
 
 "The fact is that many other children are still in danger," added DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. 
 
 (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Stephen Powell)
– Federal officials say they identified and rescued 18 minors who were the victims of child pornography, reports CNN. The month-long investigation resulted in nearly 200 arrests, mostly in the US but also in the UK, Argentina, the Philippines, and Spain. Many of the victims were apparently duped into striking up a relationship online, in some cases then meeting in person. "Let this operation be a warning to anyone who would think they can use the Internet to exploit children: We are out there looking for you, we will find you, and you will be prosecuted," says John Morton, director of ICE, which worked with Homeland Security on the investigation. One of those arrested is a 35-year-old Louisiana man accused of making porn based on an assault of a 7-year-old, and the local Shreveport Times runs down that one and some of the other arrests.