Child pornography, video and photo exchange online: 4 arrests in Lombardy

Four arrests and 7 reported for possession of pornographic material made through the exploitation of minors. It is the result of an operation carried out by the agents of the Postal and Communications Police of Milan who searched 7 people in Lombardy.
The investigation, coordinated by the Postal and Communications Police Service of Rome (National Center for the Contrast of Online Child Pornography) and led by the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Milan, started from the analysis of the computer material seized as part of a ” investigation conducted in recent months by the Milanese Postal Police, which revealed an intense exchange of child pornography material, to the extent of over 100 videos and photos depicting children aged between 2 and 12 years – as well as, in some cases , infants – involved in sexual acts with adults, with other minors and sometimes even with animals. The material was disseminated online, through the most popular instant messaging apps. For the achievement of the important investigative result – which led to the overcoming, by the investigators of the Milanese Postale, of complex anonymization techniques adopted by the suspects to escape justice – the international collaboration activity was of fundamental importance, aimed at obtaining important computer traces from the collateral foreign investigative bodies, useful for the identification of the suspects. Those involved include people from very different social backgrounds: they range from a barely legal student to a distinguished sixty-year-old employed by a well-known telecommunications company. Thanks to the specialized technical investigations carried out on the spot, the investigators also discovered that one of the arrested had made and shared on the network videos depicting sexual abuse of a young sister, who is also suffering from a serious disability. IT systems, issued by the Milan District Attorney, led to the seizure of mobile phones, tablets, hard disks, pen drives, computers and email accounts, cloud spaces and social profiles. During the operation, a large quantity of illicit material was also found stored on the computer media subjected to seizure.