The Civil Guard of Cantabria is investigating the events related to the exchange of sexual and aggressive images that were disseminated through a WhatsApp group made up of minors.
The images that were shared in the chat of an educational center in Astillero (Cantabria) that the Civil Guard is investigating for their sexual and aggressive content “turned the stomach”, according to the complainants.
In WhatsApp conversations, insults, humiliation of other children and threats of beatings with pedophile stickers, mutilations, shootings or beheadings, among other “savages”, abounded.
Unfortunately, that’s not all. The families have reported the existence of a second group, in which there were more than 100 men, including adults “unknown to the children.”
Through this group, which according to the complainants was co-managed by the minor who sent this content, one of the affected children received calls from adults asking him for his personal information and where he lived.
The Civil Guard is investigating, following a complaint from two mothers at the school, the veracity of the images and the existence of that second chat in which adults supposedly participated, as confirmed to EFE.
The families have also reported that their children have suffered threats from the minor involved, after they showed their disagreement with what was shared by that group.
In parallel to the police action, the Cantabria Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office also investigates the events.
The center has opened an internal investigation file that is being supervised by the Ministry’s educational inspection service.
However, one of the mothers who has reported is ugly that after informing the center’s management of the events, which occurred at the beginning of the school year, they told them that “they could not do anything” and the director has not contacted them. with them.
The Minister of Education of the Government of Cantabria, Sergio Silva, has assured that his Ministry is available to the authorities and forces and bodies of the State to “clarify all the facts as soon as possible.”
Silva has also added that his department is working “in coordination” with the San José de Astillero school, from which they have indicated that they will not make statements on this matter, to monitor “directly and in real time” the open file.
The Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has called for educating children in the proper use of new technologies and social networks, not only in educational centers but also in homes.
When asked by journalists about the investigation by the Civil Guard, Quiñones pointed out that it is a judicial process and no details can be given.
