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== Overview ==
''The'' ''Wonderland Club,'' (also officially knew as w0nderland'')'' named after Alice in Wonderland,<ref name=":4">{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/wonderland-club-with-a-sick-agenda-1.167573|title=Wonderland club with a sick agenda|work=Herald Scotland|accessdate=8 October 2014}}</ref> was described as "an international network of paedophiles involving the rape of boys and girls live on camera and the traffic in images of the torture of children as young as two months".<ref name="the Guardian" /> It was created in 1995<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-02-11 |title=Members of international paedophile ring to be sentenced |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/11/tracymcveigh.martinbright |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> by two American [[paedophiles]],<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1322551/Girl-8-raped-to-order-on-the-internet.html|title=Girl, 8, raped to order on the internet|author=Sean O'Neill|date=14 February 2001|work=Telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=8 October 2014}}</ref> including one named Peter Giordano
One reason for the high profile of the operation was the unusually high number of images possessed, produced, and distributed by ''Wonderland'' members (more than 750,000 images and 1,800 videos). One requirement for entry to the club, apart from a recommendation from an existing member, was the expectation to supply 10,000 new or self-produced pornographic images of children.<ref name="the Guardian" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/11/tracymcveigh.martinbright|title=Members of international paedophile ring to be sentenced|last1=Bright|first1=Martin|date=2001-02-11|work=The Observer|access-date=2019-06-23|last2=McVeigh|first2=Tracy|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}</ref> Despite substantial police work, only 17 of the 1,263 individuals appearing in the images have been identified:<ref name=":3" /> one from Argentina, one from Chile, one from Portugal, six from the United Kingdom, and seven from the United States. The Portuguese national was later identified as [[Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça]], an 11-year-old boy kidnapped in [[Lousada]] on 4 March 1998 and whose whereabouts are currently unknown.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1336247/Internet-child-sex-perverts-escape-justice.html|title=Internet child sex perverts escape justice|last=O'Neill|first=Sean|date=3 August 2011|website=Telegraph|access-date=20 March 2019}}</ref>
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