A rabbi, a police chief, and a little league coach walk into a New York police station… This is not the start of a joke, but rather the beginnings to a federal investigation of a child porn ring centered in the New York City area. To date, the Homeland Security investigations have led to the arrest of 70 men and one woman, the seizure of 600 electronic devices, and a total of 175 terabytes (for reference, 1 terabyte can store approximately 349,500 digital pictures) of sexually explicit photos and videos of children. As information seeps out; it is not only the sheer amount of trading and collecting that took place between those involved, but the vocations held by the individuals
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