LYON, Oct. 16 -- Colombian police safeguarded a five-year-old victim and arrested the child's parent, who INTERPOL says had been producing and selling abuse material online. The case sits inside a seventeen-country crackdown the agency announced on Thursday, one that counts a single child rescued in all.

The numbers around it are larger and blunter. INTERPOL, which coordinated four parallel operations between March and September under the name International Effort Confluencia, reports 95 arrests, 127 search warrants executed and one child rescued. The suspects came from 17 countries, about 89 per cent of them men and 11 per cent women. Fifteen of the participating countries are in Latin America; the other two are Italy and Spain.

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