MADRID - A woman who stumbled on evidence of child abuse while looking for information about babies on the internet helped Spanish police break a child pornography ring.

Police made 13 arrests in different parts of Spain after detecting thousands of images of child pornography following the woman's tip-off, the interior ministry said yesterday.

The woman called police after she found files with names suggesting paedophilia on an internet file-sharing site. Investigators discovered the files contained images of two adults sexually abusing a child.

- REUTERS