2023-08-28 15:35:53
Three homes were raided this morning in order to gather evidence for an investigation being carried out by distribution and possession of images of child sexual abuse.
In the procedures that were carried out in the center of Bariloche and in the San Francisco neighborhood, to the east of the city, a a lot of electronic devices which will be examined by the IT areas of the Judiciary and the Telecommunications Investigation Office of the Attorney General. Vehicles were also searched.
As reported by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation originated from the receipt of reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding detection of images of child sexual abuse on the Internet.
«Everything arises from an international alert that involved eight countries. The transmission of images of this nature is verified by special programs. This morning, simultaneous procedures were carried out in various geographical points to locate the places of presumed distribution and thus prevent a possible loss of evidence,” judicial sources indicated.
They recalled that in May 2021, the Public Prosecutor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires signed an agreement with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College, and in this way, access to the US Internet Crimes investigation system was enabled. Against Children Child On-line Protection Systems (Icaccops).
«It is a platform used to combat child sexual exploitation and collaborate with other entities in pursuit of the protection and rescue of children and adolescents.“, they pointed out.
The Judicial Investigation Corps of the Buenos Aires Public Prosecutor’s Office accessed the platform in order to identify the IP addresses associated with the alleged child sexual exploitation material. Then, the corresponding investigation reports were prepared that allowed the determination of the holders and connection addresses associated with those IP addresses.
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