This rather disturbing piece of news has been on Liveleak for a day or so now. Biggles9 was trying to help identify the man in the video and this is what happened to him . Whats next ? On October 9, 2008, Biggles9, an Australian, uploaded a viral video he found to LiveLeak. It featured a man swinging a baby around in a seemingly very dangerous manner. It was one of hundreds of videos in Biggles9's uploads. Liveleak users are like freelance reporters and submit videos that they find while surfing the Internet. On Saturday, November 29, 2008, Biggles9's home and office was raided by the Task Force Argos. They seized his computers for forensic inspection. He was arrested by armed officers while his neighbors watched, and was detained for 7 hours of interrogation with no lawyer present. He is being charged with accessing child abuse material, downloading child abuse material, and uploading child abuse material with the intent to distribute. He had to post $10,000 in bail, has to report to the police every two days, and has travel restrictions. When the video was originally uploaded, the idea was to try to identify the man swinging the baby. Biggles9 worked with one of Liveleak's founders (Hayden Hewitt), who in turn worked with the UK police, who in turn worked with Interpol, who traced the video's origin to Russia (possibly a "circus family"). However, Biggles9's IP address was also recovered and forwarded to the Australian federal authorities, who in turn forwarded it to Task Force Argos, who in turn arrested Biggles9. Hayden says at no point, on LiveLeak, were we contacted by any Australian authorities asking about Biggles or the video. Here's Biggles9's post about the incident: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ccd_1228081196

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Yesterday, Sunday my time, I was visited at my home with neighbors watching by the gun wielding "Task Force Argos" the Child Safety and Sexual Crimes Police. My computers were forensically inspected both at home and in my office.
This came about over a video I uploaded in October about a 9 month old baby that was being swung about by his father.
I have been charged with Accessing Child abuse material, downloading Child abuse material and uploading child abuse material with the intent to distribute and have to appear in court on the 18th of December for a judge to decide if I'm to be charged to appear in a higher court. Merry Xmas to me
My finger prints and DNA were taken and I was interviewed like a common criminal with tape recordings and video. Apparently this is taken very seriously in Australia.
I'm just trying to warn all the up loaders and Moderators to be very careful of what is posted and approved when it comes to children; no one needs to go through this crap over something that is so petty.
As a matter of fact Hayden did everything possible to report the video to the local authorities in London; Interpol traced the video to Russia. Seems that the police in Britain passed the information on to the Australian Federal police who tracked me down.
I want to thank Hayden and Venus for their kind support over the last 18 hours. I'm sure that sanity will prevail over this matter and that some one in authority will realize the insanity of the charges.
Biggles