U.S. police arrest 'world's number one distributor of child pornography'

John Shearen is suspected by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement of downloading the most child pornography ever in the state of Florida – almost 1,000,000 images and videos at his home in Leesburg

… as he was sitting at his desk watching it

• John Shearen, 51, was arrested by authorities at his home in Leesburg, Florida in possession of up to 1,000,000 video and images of child pornography

• The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it appeared he had downloaded the most child pornography in the state of Florida in history

• ‘He is the No. 1 person that can distribute child pornography throughout the world,’ said the FDLE. ‘And he’s been doing it.’

A man described by police as the number one distributor of child pornography worldwide has been arrested at his gated lakeside home in Florida -  sat at his basement computer downloading videos.

John Shearen was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on his 51st birthday in possession of up to 1 million images and videos.

Authorities said that Shearen was actively transferring the images and video to DVDs and in addition to the pornography also found children’s underwear which he informed agents he wears.

FDLE agents said that Shearen was only identified last month while they were monitoring child pornography websites and when they entered his home he was sat at his computer procuring more images.

‘We were able to seize anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million images and videos. They were stored on several computers and external hard drives to actually being transferred from the computers to separate DVDs, and he has a DVD collection of child pornography,’ said Special Agent Jeff Duncan to WFTV.com.

‘So, we have a lot of work to do. Those initial cases will be charged today.’

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