The suspects range in age from 19 to 77 and face a total of 626 criminal charges.
The bust followed a month-long operation by the Polk County Sheriff's Office called"Guardians of Innocence IV: Fall Haul," and was carried out by undercover detectives from its computer crimes unit.
A child pornography sting orchestrated by the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida netted 17 arrests. Two of those charged, Brett Kinney and Donald Durr, were Disney employees.that after Kinney was arrested, he no longer had a job with the company. He has been charged with eight counts of possession of child pornography and one count of promotion of sexual performance by a child. He told detectives that he was a"pervert, but not a monster," the PCSO press release said. A Disney spokesman told CNN he was on unpaid leave.
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