Huge Aussie Child Pron Bust

Victoria child porn swoop sees 50 jailed

Victoria's biggest child pornography swoop has jailed 50 people.

A further six have committed suicide since Operation Auxin, a nationwide crackdown on internet perverts, began, News Limited reports.

The investigation identified more than 180 Australian suspects who had amassed up to 12,000 images each.

Victoria yielded the highest number of suspects, who were all men.

Thirty-six of them are yet to face court.

Among the suspects netted by Operation Auxin were a policeman, principal, childcare centre director, youth worker, a prison guard and a priest.

All were buying images off a foreign porn site in Belarus, but were otherwise unconnected.

Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O'Connor, of the sexual crimes squad, said the suicides stemming from the investigation were tragic but showed the extent to which someone's life could be ruined by being caught with child porn.

The men who had killed themselves would have agonised over their secret being exposed, he said.

"The majority were people of good social standing," Sgt O'Connor said.

"They don't think about what they'll be giving up (if caught)."