AN evil clan used a giant computer to control their global child-porn empire from a tiny village with just 75 residents.
The sickos used the monstrous machine to send 5.5MILLION depraved images to perverts across the world - raking in 2.2million.
Ringleader Ian Frost, 35, and his lover Paul Rowland, 34, masterminded the operation from their riverside farmhouse in picturesque Martin Dales, Lincs.
As the details of their porn network emerged yesterday, its sheer scale left neighbours in the hamlet reeling.
Shocked poultry worker Darren Attwood, 37, said: "For a little place like this to be the HQ of a global crime empire seems too far fetched."
The massive computer - called a "RAID array" - consumed so much power that when investigators carted it to their base and plugged it in their lights DIMMED.
It was kept in the lounge and was found to control five websites that contained the images and a hoard of 6,000 videos.
Det Supt Paul Gibson said: "It was an agonising job for police officers to go through these images.
"Every face in the millions of child abuse pictures was someone's son or daughter."
Yesterday the final members of the clan admitted their depravity.
Dad of two Paul Frost, 37, of Woodhouse, Sheffield, pleaded guilty to distributing child porn - as did chum Ian Sambridge, 32, of St Albans, Herts.
Frost's wife Jodie, 33, had charges against her dropped even though she kept the family accounts.
His warped brother Ian - an IT consultant - and Rowland had already pleaded guilty. All four will be sentenced later.
Police here were tipped off by colleagues in Germany as perverts swapped more than 13million emails on the sites.
Smashing the network led to the unmasking of 1,300 paedos in 45 countries.
They include 211 here - 178 of whom have been arrested.
Among them are teachers, scout leaders and a GP. Around 132 UK children in their care have been rescued.
The evil four behind the network were in it purely for the money, a judge at Nottingham Crown Court was told.
Det Supt Gibson said: "Greed took away any sense of right or wrong they may have had."
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