Man charged with running child porn network

A Ukrainian man charged by US federal authorities with operating child pornography websites is due in a New Jersey court on Wednesday for a bail hearing.

Maksym Shynkarenko (max-SEEM' shank-AH'-rank-oh) faces 32-counts related to allegations he operated numerous Ukraine-based hardcore child porn sites and sold access to clients worldwide. Federal prosecutors charged him in New Jersey after discovering a website he allegedly ran on a customer's computer.

New Jersey's US Attorney says 560 US-based customers have been convicted in the case.

Prosecutors say Shynkarenko may be the most significant distributor of child porn ever prosecuted in the US But Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says it will aid Shynakrenko's defense and have found no evidence he committed a crime.

The mother of the 33-year-old Kharkiv native says her son is innocent.