However, on July 18,2017 police arrested Lukasz Herba, a Polish national for the abduction of the model. Instead, they found a room with some of Ayling’s clothes. When the Italian police visited the address, they found no photo studio. Helpless Green contacted the UK consulate in Italy for support. After Ayling had reached Milan, the next morning, Green received a ransom email, apparently from “The Black Death Group” and written by “MD” (Lukasz Herba) demanding £300,000 or else he would auction off Ayling as a sex-slave on the dark web on 16 July. Ayling, hailing from Coulsdon, UK and aged 20 was working in London for Phil Green’s Supermodel Agency at the time of the abduction. The abduction of Chloe had occurred when she had travelled to Milan for a photoshoot. In July 2017, news surfaced that two individuals claiming to be members of the Black Death Group had abducted a British model, named Chloe Ayling. But such a service would come at a considerable price, especially for destinations outside Europe. The gang also said “that they could transport their victims globally,” and they were also willing to kidnap a specific target for one’s needs. The advert also claimed that the abductors “do not sell girls that are terminally ill, pregnant, have STDs or are young mothers”. The Brit teen had a starting price of £92,000. They had also put the online sale of a 17-year-old girl born in the UK named as Gemma in 2016. The group had recently posted a creepy advert of a “fully booked” auction of a 15-year-old named Laura, with a starting price of £575,000. Creepy adverts for the girls included their age, hair colour and measurements. Interpol meanwhile was monitoring another notorious trafficking ring called the Black Death Group based in Eastern Europe that was operating on the Dark-Web and involved with selling sex slaves to Saudi Arabia as well as Dark-Web virgin auctions of girls as young as 15. Ivar Stokkereit, a legal adviser to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Norway, stated this was “a clear infringement of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, even though the police’s motive was to prevent new offences in the long run.”
Amnesty International also condemned the actions as “unacceptable under human rights law”. The undercover operation resulted in the identification of 90% of the users and 1,000 arrests. Police officers Jon Rouse and Paul Griffiths of Queensland Police impersonated the website’s founders for 11 months, engaging with paedophiles and sharing material online with the object of catching perpetrators as a part of ‘Operation Artemis’, a joint investigation effort involving Australian, American and European authorities. They sentenced both to life imprisonment.Īfter the arrest of the founders, for the remaining eleven months the Australian Queensland Police Service's Task Force Argos took over “Child’s Play” and clandestinely administered the site as a part of “Operation Artemis”. His associate Falte had been an administrator on “The GiftBox Exchange”, another darknet child pornography site that the authorities shut down in November 2016. At the time of his arrest, Faulkner carried on his electronic devices a child porn collection of 47,000 images and 2,900 videos. After running the site for the first six months, the United States Department of Homeland Security captured Benjamin Faulkner along with his associate Patrick Falte when they met in Virginia on October 2016.
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