A New York rabbi, a Boy Scouts leader and two police officers are among the more than 70 people arrested in a crackdown on trafficking online child sex abuse images.
A fire department paramedic, an au pair and two registered nurses were also detained during the five-week operation conducted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Investigators say the accused used the internet to anonymously collect and trade content depicting child sex abuse.
ICE's James Hayes said the arrests of people typically seen as reliable community figures is a stark reminder that individuals who traffic images of child sex abuse are not just "unemployed drifters who live in their parents' basement".
He said: "If this operation does anything, it puts the lie to the belief that the people who do this are not productive members of society."
Authorities launched Operation Caireen in April.
Agents made the arrests between April 4 and May 15. Pic: ICE It followed the January arrest of Mount Pleasant police chief Brian Fanelli and the March arrest of Brooklyn-based rabbi Samuel Waldman.
According to court documents, Fanelli told investigators that he first began looking at child sex abuse images for research, but that it later became a "personal interest". He has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.
Authorities said there had been no reports of physical child abuse linked to those arrested, despite some of the suspects having frequent access to small children.
The Boy Scouts leader was also a youth baseball team coach, and Waldman home-schooled children, investigators said.
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said: "Crimes involving the exploitation of children are particularly disturbing because they victimise the most vulnerable members of our society.
"Such images are not merely photos or videos; they are evidence of the physical and psychological abuse of children."
Agents seized nearly 600 desktop and laptop computers, tablets and smartphones during the operation.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is working with ICE to review the retrieved content in hopes of identifying some of the abused children.
The centre's CEO, John Ryan, said: "We refer to each of these images as a crime scene photo because that's exactly what they are."
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