Agents of the Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a 34-year-old man, Spanish nationality and neighbor of Reus (Tarragona) , as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of sexual abuse, possession and distribution of child sexual content and acts of contact with minors 16 years to request sexual content.

With different false profiles, the man, with a police record for similar events, earned the trust of the victims in social networks to "get, produce and disseminate images with children's sexual content," according to the Catalan police in a statement.

The investigation began in April of this year, when the Mossos received the complaint from the parents of a minor who had received a video message on his mobile phone with explicit sexual content, where he could see, without recognizing his face , to an adult having sex with a minor .

The minor who had received the video confirmed to the police that "the message had received him from a contact he had met a few days ago in a social network."

The inquiries of the Mossos led to the identification of the person who had sent the message and, after the analysis of the images, the agents determined that he was also the adult who appeared in the video with the minor.

Likewise, they determined that the video had been recorded in a hotel in Alicante and that the researcher would be related to other images in which he appeared having sex with another minor.

The Catalan police arrested the man for all this, on the 13th, and entered and registered his home in Reus, where a mobile phone and electronic material intervened for analysis.

From the study of the intervened material, the agents found that the detainee "was engaged in a continuous way to obtain, produce and disseminate child sexual content ."

Most of the pornographic material was obtained from different platforms and internet data exchange service, but also through contact with minors in social networks.

To do this, he had created several false profiles where he presented himself as a minor with an uninhibited sexual attitude, gradually gaining the confidence of the minors "who served as his objective, so that they could provide him with new images of sexual content."

The Mossos calculate that with this method he would have "contacted hundreds of minors in a few months".

Sometimes, when he consolidated a relationship, he proposed to the minors to meet and have sexual relations and if they consented, "he used to take pictures and video, material that served to feed his false profiles and to exchange this new material with other pedophiles ".

The man went to court on the 19th and the judge decreed his entry into provisional prison.

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  • Tarragona
  • Sexual abuse
  • Pedophilia

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