County Prosecutor Bill Mason stood alongside representatives from 26 assisting police agencies as he described details of the investigation dubbed "Operation Cyber Safe."
The sting tracked users and traders of so-called Kiddie Porn by using high tech software programs.
Police eventually confiscated more than 4000 items - including computers, DVD's, cell phones, cameras, flash drives, guns, and other trafficking tools.
Mason called the 36 adults and 14 juveniles arrested "the most prolific traders of child pornography in our region".
BILL MASON: "The images and videos being traded by these 50 defendants depict the most horrific acts of violence inflicted on children.... pictures and videos of infants, toddlers, and young children being sexually tortured by adults."
The operation was launched in May, and was the largest targeted child porn operation in Ohio history, and the process will now be duplicated in Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati.
Police do not know if any of the children depicted were from Ohio, or whether family members living with the arrested suspects were aware of the crimes.
This follows a similar bust one year ago. Mason said child pornography is so common that starting a new case and finding previously unknown suspects... "would be like shooting fish in a barrel."
