The National Police has arrested a 21-year-old man in Seville as allegedly responsible for a crime against the sexual freedom of several minors through ‘child grooming’. The investigated person contacted the young people – all of them members of a Malaga youth football team – through a video call on social networks, talking to them and showing them images of sexual content. The agents finally managed to identify him through the social profile used, which would be associated with a close relative. Half a dozen victims have been located, although so far only three of them have filed a complaint.
This investigation began in Malaga, following a complaint in which they reported an alleged crime against the sexual freedom of several minors. The Cybercrime Group of the Malaga Provincial Police Station took charge of the complaint, taking statements from the parents of the minors and corroborating the facts. The criminal profile contacted several members of the same football club and they, after receiving images of sexual content, cut off communication in alarm.
Likewise, the researchers focused on identifying the user of the social network used, this time associated with a telephone number. With all the information collected, the full identity of the user and that of the alleged author could be determined; a woman and her relative, respectively, both residing in Seville.
With all the information provided by this Malaga Cybercrime Group, police officers assigned to the Seville JSP proceeded to arrest the alleged perpetrator, whose mobile phone was tapped. After his arrest, he gave a statement acknowledging his participation in the events.
According to his testimony, he was only trying to make a joke on a specific player, but he finally extended it to the rest of the members of the children’s soccer team.
“These events cause great social alarm and reveal how vulnerable minors are to new technologies if they do not follow certain guidelines and are controlled by their parents or legal guardians,” the National Police warn. And they add: «The use and abuse of applications and social networks, with continuous overexposure and trust, opens the door for unknown people from anywhere in the world, sexual offenders of legal age in most cases, to have a way easily accessible, under the false appearance of being other minors. The minor victims of these attacks are not mature enough to face compromised situations, being very sensitive to the malicious requests to which they are subjected,” they conclude.
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