A man has been arrested after harassing 25 women between the ages of 13 and 22 from 16 provinces through social networks. This has been reported by the National Police.
The victims are residents in different parts of Spain; Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, A Coruña, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Mallorca, Cáceres, Toledo, Pontevedra, Badajoz, Córdoba, Jaén, Burgos and Zamora. Of the 25, 15 are minors and the rest are between 18 and 22 years old.
The investigation began last December 2020 due to a complaint from a minor under 14 years of age at the Las Delicias District Police Station in Valladolid. The first inquiries made it possible to corroborate the reported data and that the alleged perpetrator was aware of the minor’s age. After months of investigation, they managed to identify and locate the individual in Seville.
Due to the facts, the detainee has gone to court as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of corruption of minors, production of child pornographic material and threats. The Court of Instruction in functions of Guardia de Carmona that decreed his release with charges.
This is how the detainee acted
Agents specialized in cybercrime from Valladolid requested judicial authorization for the extraction of information and analysis of the two seized mobile phones, as well as access and analysis of the anonymous profile that he used on the social network. This analysis made it possible to detect that he was looking for very young victims.
To contact them, he used fictitious information in order to hide his identity and presented himself as a young businessman, tricking his victims using a job offer as an event escort as a claim, offering them money, plus what he called “whims” as motives. or fashion accessories.
The researchers detected that the number of files that had to be sent to the investigated was around 100 photos every three days, causing a high level of stress to the minors, threatening them if they did not send said images.
Several of the victims have needed psychological treatment, causing anxiety and sleep disorders in some of them, leading several of them to self-harm.
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