FBI cracks down on child pornography on the Internet

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An FBI crackdown on child pornography on the Internet so far has netted 91 arrests and 83 felony convictions.

The figures were provided to CNN as FBI Director Louis Freeh prepared to brief a Senate panel Tuesday on the ongoing probe, code-named "Innocent Images".

The FBI's Baltimore office is leading the nationwide effort to track down pedophiles using online services to transmit child porn or to recruit children into sexual relationships.

FBI agents in Baltimore first became involved in the investigation in 1993 while attempting to find 10-year-old George Stanley Burdynski, who was abducted from his Brentwood, Maryland, neighborhood.

Burdynski was never found, but the investigation led to the discovery that both adults and juveniles were routinely using computers to transmit images of children aged two to 13 showing frontal nudity or sexually explicit conduct.

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