Overview
- Two men were detained Thursday in Ourense and Tarragona after a father reported contact with his eight-year-old on an app where images vanish after viewing, and police seized electronic devices for analysis.
- The Madrid investigation, which led to a March arrest, focuses on a suspect who posed online as “Sandra” and offered €2,800 a month for nude photos and sexual video calls sold as a fake job.
- A 17-year-old who agreed to meet the man said he picked her up near Cuatro Vientos metro and sexually assaulted her in a shopping-center parking lot after telling her to move to the back seat to avoid cameras.
- A judge ordered the Madrid suspect to provisional pretrial detention, and officers seized two phones from him that are being examined to identify further victims.
- Police say groomers court minors on Instagram and messaging apps, then shift to live video to obtain sexual images, a pattern investigators are now checking for possible wider sharing networks.