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They supplied alcoholic beverages to the minors in order to disinhibit them so that they could be abused
The age of the victims ranges between 12 and 15 years
The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia has developed in Jumilla the operation 'JAEGER', an investigation aimed at clarifying crimes of abuse and sexual harassment of minors, which has resulted in the arrest of three people to whom the alleged authorship Of at least a dozen criminal acts.
The operation began last February, following the investigation initiated by the Civil Guard as a result of a series of disappearances carried out by local youth, who were absent from their homes for two days, all without Prior notice and without knowledge of their parents.
The agents found certain similarities in the disappearances and obtained information on the existence of a male who offered his house to house underage girls during their absences.
The principal investigated allegedly contacted through a well-known social network with adolescents between 12 and 15 years old, making them believe that he was about twenty years old, in order to gain his trust.
Later, through instant messaging, she invited minors to make personal encounters at her home, where they were organized parties in which alcoholic beverages and tobacco were supplied, in order to disinhibit them.
During the investigation, civil guards have verified that the principal investigated carried out the harassment or approach to the minors, through the social network used, developing elaborate staging and having as sole purpose to establish a relationship and An emotional control over the minors, which allowed him to prepare the ground for the subsequent sexual abuse, first of virtual way and later, already in advanced stage, physical.
In this way, he began the virtual relationship with the contact with the minor in order to know their tastes, preferences and create a relationship in order to reach the confidence of their potential victim, trying to achieve some emotional dependence with it .
Later it carried out the phase of construction of the friendship, which included personal and intimate confessions between the minors and the harasser.
In this way, the confidence obtained from the children was consolidated and the information about their lives, tastes and customs was deepened.
The final objective of these approaches, already entrenched in that relationship of friendship, was the gradual inclusion of specifically sexual terms, requiring them to send photographs in underwear or naked and the petition to the minors to go to the address of the harasser for their Participation in acts of a sexual nature, which occurred in the presence of other adults and, in some cases, coming to participate in sexual games with minors.
Consolidated a series of indications about the participation of up to three adult males in sexual harassment and abuse, the Civil Guard has arrested and brought to justice the alleged harasser and principal investigated, continuing with the remaining arrests.
Civil guards have found that in all cases the modus operandi was identical.
The now arrested created in a well-known social network a profile in which he pretended to be a young man with similar tastes to those of the minors with whom he maintained contact.
Then he coaxed them for several weeks and even months, talking about common hobbies and concerns.
When he managed to empathize with them, his conversations rose, becoming charged with a high sexual content, requesting, in some cases, intimate images.
Given the suspicion that the minors were being deceived, the agents carried out different actions in order to find out who was really the person who was behind the nick with which the girls contacted.
With all the information collected could confirm the initial suspicions, determining that the alleged young man was actually an individual of 42 years.
The investigation shows that the principal investigated encouraged the minors to miss classes, with the sole purpose that these go to their home.
Once convinced, she organized meetings with other adults, in which they were given the smallest alcoholic beverages, sometimes leading to strong drunkenness in them, which, semi-unconscious and without the capacity to resist, were subject Of abuses by the adults present.
The operation continues open, not ruling out the appearance of new victims.
The Ecuadorian detainees, aged between 19 and 42, and residents of Jumilla, together with the investigations, have been placed at the disposal of the Jumilla Court of Instruction No. 1 (Murcia).
Grooming
It is the harassment exercised by an adult and refers to actions taken deliberately to establish a relationship (through the NTIC's) and emotional control over a child in order to prepare the ground, to make an appointment, whose end Is the sexual contact.
The Civil Guard remembers that the first step that must be taken to avoid these situations is the development of a good prevention work that can be summarized in:
- Teach the child to use the Internet and tools, programs and services safely.
- Educate the child so that it has a critical sense in accepting strangers in social networks, online games and messaging services, and learn how to configure the privacy options offered by these services to determine what information is accessible to the the rest.
- Take advantage of the publication of news about these cases in the media to discuss with the child why these things happen or even to ask directly if at any time has been harassed or if he knows in his environment some case of these characteristics.
- Recommend not to enter pages that are unreliable, the use of strong passwords and to be changed periodically.
- Limiting hours of use to avoid dependency and conflict with other activities such as study or other leisure activities.
- Establish age criteria to start using the devices (computer, tablet, mobile) and to access different content and services.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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