Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

Mexico City (21 February 2009) .- The hi5 social network used to find old friends and make new acquaintances, but also to exchange pictures and videos of child pornography and even seek sexual encounters with minors in Mexico.

This is the case for over a year in the “young gay mexico 13-19″ that 2 thousand 032 members exchange information and make appointments to meet.

Until Thursday February 19 also operates the “gay Mexican Children (under 18 years) with 761 members and which REFORMA detected in the messages that are shared links to download pictures and videos of child pornography and messages from people seeking to have sex with minors.

From this Thursday and after that worked without interruption since November 21 last year, he and two other similar groups appear as inactive.

However, “young gay mexico 13-19″ continued to operate as it has since January 28, 2008.

Exchange videos of children having sex “offers since February 15 after the user” alex “is part of the group and said to live in Colombia. To do so gives a hotmail address to “Alex Dias.”

Another of the group gives the link to your blog, in which there are comics Hentai style of children having sex.

In “Children of gay Mexico (under 18 years)” a user identified as “Pedrín” and who claims to have 15 years and live in Mexico rose 13 web addresses to download videos in which children watched with apparent ages between 10 and 15 years in various sexual practices among themselves and with adults.

This despite the fact that in the “Terms of Service, managers of state that is prohibited hi5 exchange of pornographic material or any personal information that encourages illegal conduct.

“Prohibited Content includes (one) that display pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind and in any form”, says the popular site.

The Federal Penal Code provides in Article 202, which is punishable by 7 to 12 years imprisonment to those who produce pornographic material that is displayed to children under 18 years.

Specialists and officials from Mexico City indicated that social networks operate Internet sex offenders who hide behind false identities, in claiming to be minors, making it difficult to detect.

“In India, unfortunately, technology and crime are moving faster than the laws and authorities,” said Teresa Ulloa, director of the Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Agents of the City Attorney’s involved in investigations of cases of child pornography, noting that in Mexico the material is trafficked mainly via email, on internet forums and social networks, and via instant messaging services.

“As with pornography involving adults, children have video genres: there are photographs from erotic or posing naked, orgies and sadomasochism most robust and zoophilia, to the recording of sexual assault,” said an investigating officer , who requested anonymity so as not to lose their ability to find hidden.

Reinforcing security portals … hi5, no

European subsidiaries of Facebook, Youtube, Bebo and MySpace, among 13 other sites social networking and sharing of videos and photos, agreed to strengthen security measures to ensure that minors are exposed to harassment in the network or are victims of crimes such as exploitation or child pornography.

Hi5 Networks, which owns the portal hi5, did not sign the agreement signed on February 10.

According to the central page of the social network, more than 50 million users come to this service in North and South America, Europe and Asia, which makes it one of the 15 most visited websites worldwide.

The European Commission, executive body of the European Union, made public the agreement signed, which requires websites to verify that no illegal exchange of materials among network users.

Rafael Cabrera
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