17 years in prison for contacting minors on WhatsApp

A man has confessed to being the author of a crime continued corruption of minors and another continued crime of abuse of minors, thus accepting the pen alty of 17 years in prison, 39 years in prison and 10 years of probation imposed by the Prosecutor's Office of the Principality of Asturias Crimes committed through the messaging application WhatsApp, with which exchanged pedophile material from the minors with whom he contacted posing as another person.

The confession took place this past Monday, confirming the facts that the judicial process established between the months of May and September 2014 and for which he was to be prosecuted. The facts place him as the author of corruption and abuse of minors after deceiving several girls between 11 and 12 years old posing as a minor of the same age to ask them for photos and videos of sexual content. A practice known as sexting Said contents were later distributed by the confessed author through the Internet in a network of pedophiles through the program of downloads Ares.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the author posed as a minor named Manu , or José on other occasions, to start talking to a girl from the school where his youngest son attended , through whom he obtained the victim's number.After gaining her trust by stating that he was in love with her, he would ask her for sexual photos and videos in which she showed herself clothed and naked. In addition, the defendant requested the number of other colleagues of the victim, with whom he also managed to speak and extract more pedophile content that he later shared on the Internet.

The accused came to create a competition between the minors, with whom he repeated the same persuasion techniques to achieve his goals. In this way, he achieved longer videos and increasingly engaged content. To get them to send him photos and videos, he even stated that he would take his own life or leave his relationship with the different minors, according to data published by lainformación.com

The defendant also had telephone relations with underage girls, between 11 and 12 years old in LeónIn these cases, he repeated the same processes, getting the victims themselves to give up the phone numbers of their classmates and friends With one of these minors he kept sexual relations on repeated occasions These situations were the consequence of blackmail The defendant posed as Manu's father (the false identity created to contact the minors through WhatsApp), with whom he had to have sexual relations in exchange for gifts and promises of a future courtship with this false son. These meetings were recorded and distributed over the Internet by the confessed criminal.

The oral hearing for which the subject was going to be prosecuted was scheduled for this Monday in the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Asturias , in Oviedo, although it has been canceled due to the confession and acceptance of the sentence imposed by the Prosecutor's Office