Overview
- A father's complaint prompted Spain’s Unidad Central de Ciberdelincuencia to open an inquiry that led to the suspect’s arrest in Valladolid on June 25.
- Police say the 19-year-old created a fake female minor profile on a mobile app to contact boys and obtain semi-nude photos and a masturbation video from a minor.
- Investigators linked the suspect’s accounts to two reports forwarded by the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that flagged child sexual content shared in 2023.
- Authorities report the suspect has at least three prior alleged sexual offences on his police record, including one described as child grooming and two counts of corruption of minors.
- Officers have confiscated his phone and requested judicial authorization to dump and analyze its contents, and the probe remains open with possible further charges depending on forensic findings.