In Santiago, the authorities arrested a member of a suspected transnational criminal organization dedicated to the marketing and production of child pornographic content and sexual exploitation of minors through electronic means.
Is regarding Johannes Wilhelm Streese Suárez21 years old, once morest whom the Santiago Prosecutor’s Office and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office once morest Crimes and High-Tech Crimes requested preventive detention following being arrested.
The young man is accused of producing and reproducing photographs and videos of minors for sexual exploitation through a messaging site that operated in the Dominican Republic and the United States, in addition to sharing links to the same content.
“Streese Suárez will face charges for violation of article 24 of Law 153-07, on High Technology Crimes and Crimes, which penalizes the dissemination by electronic means of images and representations of a pornographic nature that involve children or adolescents”, cites a statement issued by the Attorney General’s Office.
This investigation was mobilized following receiving an alert from the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of Philadelphia, United States, an international body linked to electronic patrolling of these crimes.
The notice of the international entity allowed an extensive investigation to be initiated, which detected the IP addresses used by the network to commit the crimes.
evidence
The Public Ministry maintains that it has sufficient evidence to achieve the imposition of a coercive measure once morest Streese Suárez.
The Dominican authorities have in their possession laptops, tablets, a CPU, USB memories, cell phones, hard drives and other electronic devices in which, through digital forensic expertise and analysis of electronic devices, carried out by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif ), material was found in which sexual abuse of girls is seen.
Likewise, the Prosecutor’s Office has photographs taken from the video chats that the accused carried out with girls, in which he encouraged them to show their private parts.
Caveat
Referring to the issue, the head prosecutor of the jurisdiction, Osvaldo Bonilla, indicated that the prosecution body will seek the highest possible sanction once morest the defendant due to the negative impact that this criminal activity produces in the lives of children, when criminals of the world hide behind electronic devices to harm.
Bonilla also urged parents to exercise extreme vigilance over their underage children and the content they access on electronic devices, to prevent them from becoming victims of these criminals.
