Yesterday an 18-year-old boy from Vigo was arrested for sending, through the application, WhatsApp, photographs of his naked ex-girlfriend, who is a minor. In addition, oanother six minors were accused of distributing these photographs which, according to the police investigation, would have reached a total of 25 people through group conversations of this tool.For this practice, the young man has been accused of a crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets
This type of practice known as sexting is currently very widespread due to the large number of possibilities given by the smartphones and current communication applications, including the hegemonic WhatsApp , which allows the sending of photos and videos of all kinds. The problem, as in this case, is that is spread without permission and with the aggravation of age , since there are minors in the middle of the story, this type of content. An act that incurs in crime and that is punished by law
The police have been investigating the case of these photographs since last March, when the mother of the minor received several images of her daughter on her own terminal, alerted by her adult son who had received the same images that were apparently being disseminated by students from the same institute in VigoThe 18-year-old detainee spread them in two WhatsApp group conversations reaching a total of 25 people , all of them already identified by the police. Among them is even the current girlfriend of the detainee, who even assaulted the victim at the institute for having sent the images, according to the police report made public.
Along with this case, it is also known that the National Police also arrested a man 41 years old in Seville by taking advantage of this type of tools and social networks to get content of a sexual nature of more than 200 minors Photographs and videos that he obtained after creating a false profile on social networks and deceiving the minors. In addition, on a mattress in his house he stored a mobile device and several CDs with content of a sexual nature involving minors between the ages of eight and fourteen years with whom I had contacted.
According to information from the newspaper El País, the Police have already arrested 105 people so far this year for crimes of cyberbullying and child pornography.
And it is that sexting and sending photographs of sexual contenthas a great danger, despite being such a widespread practice today. We must not forget that the sending of photographs and videos may incur crimes that violate privacy and the right to honor of people, being very aware of the use made of social networks and applications of communication such as WhatsApp or even others created or adapted for the practice of sexting as is Snapchat
