Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

NATIONAL POLICE arrested a 20-year-old man in Viator (Almeria) who had threatened at least 600 girls between 12 and 17 via social networking sites since 2007. He had created more than 500 profiles using the same number of e-mail addresses, then threatened to post pictures of the girls on porn sites or infect their computers with a virus unless they sent him pictures of themselves nude or posed for the webcam.

A search of his home revealed almost 1,000 videos, links to child pornography sites and photos of naked girls. The investigation began after a 12-year-old girl in Oviedo reported that she had been threatened.

The detainee has been set free with charges of corruption of minors, threats, coercion and revealing secrets.

Source: EuroWeeklyNews

Valencia, Spain, Feb 9 (EFE).- Spanish police have arrested 26 people and implicated 10 more in a new operation against the possession and distribution of child pornography on the Internet.

Rolled out in 18 provinces over four months, the operation managed to intercept thousands of kiddie-porn files and seize 10 computers, 78 hard drives, a memory pen and 673 CDs and DVDs with pedophilic content, police said.

Last May a citizen in the eastern town of Torrent told police about the existence of some files with child-pornography content on the Internet, and from that moment agents concentrated on locating people who could be sharing those files.

The agents found several users who were making available to other people an index with different names that made a “clear reference” to kiddie-porn content, and so were able to locate all the users across several Spanish provinces.