The National Police have arrested a man who captured girls between the ages of 10 and 15 on social networks, pretending to be another minor, to get them to send him photos and videos of sexual content, with which he later blackmailed them into sending him more. , a spokeswoman for the Superior Police Headquarters of Madrid has informed Europa Press.
The investigation began almost two years ago when an 11-year-old girl in the company of her father reported to the Parla National Police station that an unknown person contacted her through a social network to later request photographs of her. intimate character.
As a result of the investigations, the agents of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Madrid managed to identify, locate and arrest the alleged perpetrator in Morón de la Frontera (Seville) in April last year.
The agents carried out an entry and search at his home where a mobile device was intervened that yielded information of great importance to the investigators.
After analyzing the terminal, they found out that there were numerous conversations with other minors in which this individual requested and obtained images, using the same ‘modus operandi’ as the initial complaint. They managed to locate 11 more victims from all over Spain, all of them minors.
The agents were able to verify that the man contacted innumerable minors through TikTok, which is currently the fashionable social network among minors, posing as another girl in order to establish a friendship and gain their trust, to later request them for a network. Hangouts messaging images of a sexual nature in exchange for significantly increasing their number of followers on social networks.
He even sent them pictures of other victims making them believe it was him to gain their trust. When he achieved his goal, this individual insisted again to get more explicit images, threatening to spread them if they refused.
Finally, on April 25, the Police again managed to locate and arrest him in Morón de la Frontera (Seville). This is a 25-year-old Spaniard, with a history of prostitution and corruption of minors. By intervening
They charge him with a total of twelve acts, making him available to the judicial authority as allegedly responsible for two crimes of sexual assault on a child under 16 years of age, nine of sexual abuse, eleven of production of child pornography and three of threats. They charge him with sexual assault for the intimidation shown in two cases and abuse for the same, but for acts committed before the change in the Penal Code. There was no physical encounter between offender and victims.
