National Police agents have arrested eight people, and investigate another minor , in different provinces, for sexually harassing minor girls through the Internet.

Those arrested were linked to each other by one of their victims, a child under 13 years of age who they were harassing , who had uploaded several photographs of her face and body in suggestive positions to their social networks.

One of those investigated has been arrested twice during the investigation by reoffending his criminal actions ; another of them managed to sexually abuse the child, since she lived a few kilometers away from the victim.

The investigation began in April 2017 when officers received an email in which a mother alerted to contact her daughter through a popular social network, a person claiming to have a modeling agency.

The agents verified the existence of an account in which a well-known female lingerie brand was announced in search of girls , minors, who wanted to be models. In addition, they observed that this offer was repeated in different social networks. Investigated the origin of these announcements, the police located a suspect, resident in the community of Madrid, with numerous records .

Likewise, the efforts made revealed that this individual would have been harassing a second child under 12 in the province of Alicante, which is why he was arrested. In the registration of his address, the agents discovered that he had inserted various advertisements in different social networks posing as a female lingerie commercial and modeling agent. These were answered by many girls who were attracted to the offer. Finally, they identified a total of eight victims, in different Spanish provinces, between 12 and 16 years of age .

At the same time, the agents learned that the minor who originated the investigation had been harassed through social networks by other different individuals. She committed the imprudence of uploading various photographs of her face and body in suggestive positions , a fact that attracted numerous sexual harassers of minors who took advantage of their low age and lack of maturity to obtain sexual material.

The researchers identified a total of nine different individuals who had not only requested and obtained sexual material from the child but also planned a physical meeting in order to have sexual relations with her, one of the detainees arriving to achieve that goal.

One of the detainees, 33 years old and resident in Tenerife , impersonated a woman to gain the child's trust. He then tricked her into saying that she had a terminal illness and her desire to meet her best friend. After gaining his trust, he sent adult pornography with the intention of assuming any type of sexual conduct on the network as normal and, finally, he requested images of himself of a sexual nature. The investigation also tried to stay with the girl, but that meeting never reached thanks to police intervention occur.

In Tarragona, they arrested another 26-year-old male who had sent the smallest photographs of his own genitals. In this case, the detainee had assumed the role of a young boy trying to banal sexual relations between people of different ages. In the search of his address, the agents discovered that he had harassed another child under 14 with whom he had initiated conversations aimed at maintaining a physical encounter with her, in addition to having requested sexual material.

Another 29-year-old male was arrested in Ciudad Real for the same facts. In this case, the stalker had managed to establish a strong relationship of friendship with the victim, assuming a role of confidant and advising her regarding her daily problems. Established the relationship of trust, the detainee revealed that he was a man older than her and that he would feel very hurt if he refused . In this way, and awakening in the minor a feeling of grief, he manipulated it to obtain sexual material and gather additional information tending to achieve a physical encounter with her, a fact that did not occur thanks to the intervention of the agents. In their home registry, they also discovered the identity of a second 16-year-old victim .

After several steps, four other pedophiles were arrested in Valencia (3) and Badajoz (1). One of them, 22 years old , managed to sexually abuse the child by taking advantage of their geographical proximity without the minor denouncing the facts by believing they were a couple . In addition, another who was 17 years old when he harassed the child was charged.

In the last phase of the investigation, the agents found that the first of those arrested, the 24-year-old male resident in Madrid, had reintroduced new advertisements on social networks to capture underage girls with the same modus operandi. Although, after the first arrest, his parents withdrew all the computer equipment at his disposal, he had made the new facts through a game console . When he was arrested again, he acknowledged that he could not stop his compulsive behavior to obtain sexual images of minors, although he said he had no interest in meeting them.

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