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Five Arrests in Child Pornography Crackdown

By Oisin Sweeney • Published: 26 Nov 2020 • 9:19

Forty arrested for sharing child porn on social network

Most of the detainees were minors themselves

POLICIA Nacional has arrested five suspected pedophiles in Seville and Ciudad Real in a child pornography crackdown.

A large number of phones, USB sticks, hard drives, computers, and tablets were seized in raids on addresses in Seville, Dos Hermanas, and Herencia (Ciudad Real) and investigators are analysing over 6000 files of suspected illegal material.

The raids and arrests are the result of a ‘cyber-patrol’ carried out by tech officers in their efforts to detect and prevent the circulation of child pornography online. Police worked alongside the Child Protection Group of the Central Cybercrime Unit and the Seville Technological Crime Group in this operation. They identified 7 IP addresses in Seville Province that were the suspected sources of the materials’ distribution.

Policia Nacional warned that in ‘not a few cases’ online predators are posing as minors to manipulate underage youths into sharing private material which they then circulate online.

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Oisin Sweeney

Oisin is an Irish writer based in Seville, the sunny capital of Andalucia. After starting his working life as a bookseller, he moved into journalism and cut his teeth as a reporter at one of Ireland's biggest news websites. Since joining Euro Weekly News in November, he has enjoyed covering the latest stories from Seville, Spain and further afield - with special interests in crime, cybersecurity, and European politics. Anyone who can pronounce his name first try gets a free cerveza...

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