AFP - Mexican police arrested seven people, including a Roman Catholic priest, allegedly involved in a child porn ring that distributed 100,000 pictures and videos of children from around the world, the Attorney General's office said Wednesday.
   
"A priest from Xalapa, Veracruz (eastern Mexico), was among those detained, as well as an IT worker from the foreign ministry," a statement said.
   
Mexican authorities found files containing a large number of explicit sex scenes between adults and children up to 10 years of age at the ministry worker's house, the statement said.
   
An inquiry which began in March led to the discovery of suspected members of the network throughout Mexico, it added.
   
Authorities said that the children appeared to be of different nationalities.
   
The priest, Rafael Muniz, and his brother were accused of owning an email address which provided most of the pornographic pictures and videos.
   
"I've never been involved in the things they're accusing me of, nor has my brother," the priest later told local media.
   
Another unidentified suspect earlier confessed to acts of "rape and sexual abuse."
   
The images had been viewed in Brazil, Spain, Bulgaria, Russia, the United States and Argentina, said Gustavo Caballero from the police department's cybercrime unit.