The Civil Guard, in collaboration with the FBI, arrested three pedophiles who had fled the United States in Madrid, Barcelona and Gran Canaria, the armed institute reported Wednesday.
Who is a 55 year old man He sexually assaulted and impregnated his 12-year-old stepdaughter one of the 71 people distributing child sexually explicit files, and one of the 23 people who marketed confidential material sent to him by his victim, and three criminal suspects arrested by the team that evaded the Central Operations Unit (UCO) justice. Civil Guard.
The first was arrested in Vecindario (Gran Canaria), raping and impregnating his 12-year-old stepdaughter, with whom he lived with his mother and brothers, in 2014.
When the victim gave birth, DNA tests confirmed that the baby belonged to the stepfather, who had fled the United States to Spain when they tried to arrest him.
The man went to Barcelona before settling on the Canary Island. and lived in Benidorm (Alicante).
The 71-year-old detainee was part of a criminal network the FBI began investigating in 2010 dedicated to the exchange of sexually explicit multimedia files by minors.
That year, the US intelligence agency identified an IP address used by the criminal network in question, a user of which the currently detained person was located in the vicinity of Miami.
The FBI came to arrest him after a search of his home and find lots of files on your computer that contain pedophile contentwhich the defendant claims to have downloaded “for research purposes”.
However, he was released after appearing before the judge and did not appear during the trial.
The man had fled to Honduras, where he even got citizenship to avoid extradition. However, following an FBI report that he had recently traveled to Spain, UCO agents found and arrested him. finally in Getafe (Madrid), where he leads a “seemingly normal” life.
Most recently, the 23-year-old is charged with threatening and coercing a minor through a messaging platform aimed at “gamers” to record pornographic material, which he later sold several times between October 2022 and January of this year.
Escaped from Kalamazoo County (Michigan, USA)The Civil Guard learned that the young man was studying for a master’s degree in Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Barcelona, this knowledge made it easy for him to locate and be arrested.