One fell victim to an astute minor child through internetas a man pretending to be a woman approached him and after urging him to commit acts of a sexual nature, recorded him without his knowledge and then threatened him.
According to the police announcement, on Thursday (5.12.2024) a Greek man was arrested following the complaint of the minor, while in his possession was found a lot of pornographic material of different minors that he had approached via the internet. The man is charged with child pornography, child pornography and menacing.
Initially, there had been a complaint, according to which an unknown internet user and profile manager of a virtual chat rooms website, using a female name, in a video call he had with a minor, urged him to perform acts of a sexual nature, which he videotaped without his knowledge and then threatened to release the material if he cut off communication with him.
The competent Prosecutor’s Office was informed about the case, where the details of the manager of the disputed account and the involvement of the defendant in the case were established.
An investigation followed, in the presence of a judicial officer, at his home in an area of Attica, where a mobile phone and a computer hard drive were found and confiscated.
In fact, from the investigation, a number of videos were found, which they had been created a few hours before the investigation and contained pornographic material of different minors. The videos in question were a product of recording the defendant’s computer screen, an act which took place during the individual or group video calls with the minors.
The seized digital evidence will be sent to the relevant Department of the Criminal Investigation Department for further laboratory examination.
The arrested person will be taken to the competent Prosecutor.
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