Javier Ortega Zaragoza
Saragossa
Updated Friday, February 16, 2024-12:03
Catalonia A sexual predator with child pornography of more than 70 minors was arrested in Argentona (Barcelona)
La Rioja They arrest a man for threatening a 10-year-old girl on social networks to obtain sexual videos
Members of the National Police have arrested
an 18-year-old free-time instructor and indoor soccer coach in
Zaragoza
as the perpetrator of an alleged crime of corruption of minors. He is being investigated for sending and requesting, through social networks, photographs and videos of a sexual nature.
The Police located on his cell phone 212 photographs and 52 videos with numerous children in intimate situations and engaging in sexual or pornographic behavior.
Using a false profile, he would have gained the trust of at least three boys and a girl, aged 11 and 12, to achieve an exchange of images. However, the Police
Technological Crimes Group
is analyzing the devices seized during the search of his home because they found photo and video files of other still unidentified minors.
The Zaragoza
Juvenile Prosecutor's Office
is investigating the case since the events took place between August and October 2023, when the person under investigation was 17 years old. For this reason, he is free in the custody of his parents.
According to Heraldo de Aragón
and
El Periódico de Aragón
published this Friday
, the police investigation began following a complaint from the mother of an 11-year-old boy who had discovered that an unknown Instagram user had been contacting her son so that He will send you naked photographs and videos of himself masturbating.
Subsequently, the agents found out that three other minors, friends and schoolmates of the previous one, had had virtual contact of the same nature with the same Instagram profile.
sexual material
The examination of the minors' mobile terminals allowed them to verify the existence of numerous files with photos, videos and conversations that the interlocutor had had with the children in which he asked them for sexual or pornographic material and he even also sent images of naked women.
The agents observed that he acted with a similar pattern of tricking minors into providing him with intimate or pornographic material. Through the Internet connection, the police managed to locate the home of the alleged pedophile in Zaragoza.
With a court order, on February 7 they showed up at the home to search it. The young man recognized that he was the person related to the events they were investigating, so they proceeded to arrest him.
The agents found 212 images and 52 videos on his iPhone in which numerous minors could be seen in intimate situations, including the boy whose mother reported the events and two of his friends.
Likewise, he confessed that among his activities was that of a free time monitor and coach of an indoor soccer team for seven-year-old children. This confession alerted the Police, who continue to take steps to find out if he has taken advantage of this circumstance for criminal purposes.