04/23/2021 8:53 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 04/23/2021 9:30 PM
A 71-year-old dermatologist was sentenced this Friday by the Buenos Aires Justice to
6 years in prison
for spreading images of sexual exploitation of minors.
The doctor, who already had a previous conviction by this Public Prosecutor's Office of the City for acts of distribution of images of child sexual abuse of minors, was arrested this Thursday in a house in San Cristobal.
According to the investigators, the dermatologist shared
images of a 12-year-old girl
through private Facebook messages
.
Some of the items seized from the convicted dermatologist's home.
This Friday, after the defendant
admitted the charges against him
, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
The investigation, carried out by the Specialized Unit for Computer Crimes and Contraventions (UFEDYCI), concluded one month after the complaint was received.
Prosecutor Daniela Dupuy received on March 18, through three reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a complaint about the actions of three Facebook users.
The UFEDYCI asked the companies that provide the internet service to inform which user the connections from which the sexual exploitation material of the 12-year-old girl was distributed had been assigned.
The doctor spread images of sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old girl through private Facebook messages.
Through this information, an address was identified in the San Cristóbal neighborhood, where the dermatologist lives.
With this information, the search was requested, which was ordered by Judge Rodolfo Ariza Clérici.
The procedure was carried out this Thursday by the Judicial Investigation Corps of the Public Ministry of the City and the Cybercrimes against Children, Children and Adolescents Section of the City Police.
Electronic devices were seized during the operation and the accused was arrested.
This Friday, the Prosecutor's Office made the facts known to the accused, who
acknowledged having sent images of child sexual abuse
via Facebook message to other users.
The Specialized Fiscal Unit in Computer Crimes and Contraventions (UFEDYCI) understood that it was up to the doctor to serve a sentence of 6 years in prison.
Judge Rodolfo Ariza Clérici sentenced him to the requested penalty of effective compliance.
"Operation Childhood Light"
This Friday, a man accused of facilitating child sexual exploitation material through P2P networks was also sentenced to 4 years in prison.
The case arises from "Operation Light for Children III", the same one for which the former Garrahan pediatrician Ricardo Russo was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison.
The investigation was initiated by the authorities of Homeland Security of the United States (FBI) and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Brazil, through which they informed the Public Prosecutor's Office of the City of the existence of various distribution events. of child sexual exploitation content carried out by users based in Argentina, through different P2P platforms, mainly the "E-mule" program.
The raid carried out in the house of the condemned man.
Based on this international report, the UFEDyCI, with the assistance of the Judicial Investigations Corps of the Public Prosecutor's Office, established that the maneuvers to facilitate child abuse material were carried out from 11 homes located in the City of Buenos Aires and 29 in the interior of the country.
In the raid carried out on the man convicted this Friday by Judge Lorena Tula del Moral, hundreds of files of child sexual exploitation were seized, in which
babies to 12-year-olds
are observed
in situations of sexual abuse.
On the other hand, records of the investigated P2P platform were found, which made it possible to establish the material that the accused shared and as well as their search preferences.
Regarding the rest of the homes searched in the City, some defendants have already been convicted and others are waiting for the date of the oral trial to be set.
LM
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