PEDOPHILES no longer fit the common image of an old man living alone, meaning anyone could be a danger to children, Queensland police and child advocates warn.
Federal police swooped on 65 Australian men, charging them with involvement in the Canadian website that allowed customers to trade and purchase sex images and videos of young males from the Ukraine, Romania and Germany.
Queensland police arrested 32 of those men, including four teachers, a student, a bank manager, a nurse, an accountant and a number of tradesmen.
Detective Senior Sergeant Cameron Harsley says that offenders ranged in age between 22 and 76, with most towards the younger end of the range.
"The idea of an old man living alone is gone, they are young offenders," he told reporters on Friday.
"Those that were downloading these images are just as guilty as those who were procuring these boys.
"People in (positions of) trust, we put a higher value on their morals.
"It's very important to risk manage the contact your children have with members of the public or anybody, it's very important to communicate with your child every night."
Child protection advocacy group Bravehearts said stranger danger was coming back via the internet and mobile phones.
"It makes it very difficult, it makes people scared of every new person in their life really," the organisation's founder and executive director Hetty Johnston told AAP.
No Queensland children were exploited by the international ring, but Det Sgt Harsley said it could have easily gone that way.
"Where there's a market, there's a will for children, so I'm confident that if the opportunity existed for these people to exploit children in Queensland, they would," he said.
"I think the market is flourishing, I think we have got to be vigilant all the time."
But law enforcement officials and parents can only do so much.
Most of the men charged have already appeared in court and are due back in the dock over the next two months.
One, a bank manager from northern Brisbane, has already faced court and was fined $1000 with no conviction recorded.
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