The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced the pedophile from Grindr, an application for contacts between homosexuals, to 45 years and 6 months in prison for sexual crimes of various kinds committed against ten minors with whom he contacted between 2019 and 2021 to offer them money in exchange of sex.
Specifically, the Court considers him the author of three sexual assaults on minors under 16 years of age, five crimes of child sexual cyberbullying, seven crimes of prostitution of minors, three of production of child pornography and two of exhibitionism, although the Chamber acquits him of other sexual crimes of the same nature.
The magistrates recall that effective compliance cannot exceed 20 years in prison, to which must be discounted the time he has been in pretrial detention, since July 2021.
In addition, the Chamber condemns Javier D. M. to compensation between 6,000 and 3,000 euros to each of the ten victims for moral damages. The total amount amounts to 42,000 euros.
The sentence considers it proven that the convicted person, from the summer of 2019 to July 2021, in order to satisfy his sexual desire, contacted a dozen minors through Grindr, a condition he specifically sought.
He then communicated with them via WhatsApp, specifically asking their age, so the convicted person “was fully aware of the age of the minor” he was with.
The modus operandi was to offer them money in exchange for meeting to have sex. The amount ranged from 20 to more than 50 euros depending on the type of relationship the minors agreed to maintain. In addition, in most cases he asked them for photos of sexual content, which he also sent them.
Although he also posed as a National Police agent to coerce and harass minors, according to what a Corps official who analyzed his mobile phone stated at the trial: “He coerced a 15-year-old boy by threatening to arrest a friend of his.” , he recounted to questions from the prosecutor.
However, the resolution is not final and against it an appeal can be filed before the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid.
