A 19-year-old boy was arrested in Madrid for sexual cyberbullying of minors

The National Police has arrested a 19-year-old young man in Madrid for various crimes of cybersexual harassment of minors in the framework of Operation Yomi, which was launched in Zaragoza in March last year after a complaint by the parents of a girl 13-year-old girl who discovered, through an app, that she had been tricked by another user into sending her explicit sexual photographs and videos.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
23 June 2023 Friday 16:26
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A 19-year-old boy was arrested in Madrid for sexual cyberbullying of minors

The National Police has arrested a 19-year-old young man in Madrid for various crimes of cybersexual harassment of minors in the framework of Operation Yomi, which was launched in Zaragoza in March last year after a complaint by the parents of a girl 13-year-old girl who discovered, through an app, that she had been tricked by another user into sending her explicit sexual photographs and videos.

As reported this Saturday by the Higher Police Headquarters of Aragon, the Zaragoza Technological Crime Group opened the investigation and after analyzing the computer devices used by the minor, they verified that she had established an intense relationship with a young man of legal age, who " With skillful emotional manipulation of the girl, he had managed to make her fall in love with him, with the intention of satisfying her sexual desires through increasingly explicit requests".

In addition, he provided him with instructions to prevent his parents from detecting his conversations and any type of control over the communications between them, especially his plans for the girl to run away with him, creating an opportunity for it, with the intention of having sexual relations.

Once identified, those investigated corroborated that she resided in the capital of Spain and, given the imminence that she could travel from there to physically contact the minor, they went to the capital to proceed with her arrest and entry and search at her home. with the support of the Technological Crimes Group of the Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police of Madrid.

In the police registry, different computer devices were seized where he kept the graphic material obtained from the minor complainant and accounts were intervened in different social networks used by the investigated to also contact other minors.

In the preliminary analysis of the intense online activity of the detainee, it has been detected that he had similar relationships with at least six other presumably minor girls.

The investigation will continue in a second phase with the analysis of all the computer material seized in order to determine the total number of victims and if the person investigated physically contacted them.

The detainee was made available to the Investigating Court of Madrid for transfer to Investigating Court 11 of Zaragoza, in charge of processing the case.