A pedophile who masterminded a huge online child porn ring involving 100 girls has been battered to death after less than a month in jail.

Christian Maire, 40, was stabbed and bashed in the head until he died at Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Mighigan on January 2.

He was set on by up to seven inmates at the facility, just weeks after being jailed for 40 years, with a medical examiner ruling his death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma and slash wounds. No-one has been arrested in connection with the murder.

Pedophile Christian Maire, pictured, who was murdered in prison last week less than a month after being sentenced to 40 years jail for molesting 100 girls (Picture: WIBW)

Maire, of Binghamton, New York, headed a child sex ring that saw pedophiles pose as bored teenagers online in a bid to lure preteen and underage children into a private chatroom.




Once there, those kids were manipulated intro stripping, masturbating and performing other sex acts for the group of perverts, who called themselves the ‘Bored Group.’

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Maire handpicked his fellow pedophiles, some of whom shared sexual fantasies about babies.

During Maire’s sentencing hearing, prosecutor Kevin Mulcahy told a judge: ‘They hunted girls. They lied to girls.

‘They manipulated girls. … And they did so repeatedly, for years, victimizing more than 100 girls, only a fraction of whom have been positively identified.’

Maire was killed at Federal Prison Milan. Seven inmates are suspected of the fatal attack, although none have been arrested in connection with the slaying (Picture: BOP.gov)

One of his fellow Bored Group members, Michal Figura, 36, was also injured in the attack that killed Maire.

His current condition is unknown, according to The Detroit News.

Maire, who worked as a graphic designer, went on to offer his own apology to the court, admitting he had ‘shattered so many lives.’

He added: ‘I never thought I could sink this low. I apologize to all of my victims.’

Further details of the attack that killed him have not yet been released.

It happened during the ongoing US government shutdown and repeated calls for more staff to be hired to work at Milan prison.