Images of children who are victims of abuse on social networks, 7 minors reported

Seven minors, between the ages of 13 and 15, including a girl, were reported by the police as they were held responsible for having received and sent, on various social groups, images of children, even three or four years old, victims of sexual abuse. The operation, called Poison, was conducted by the police of the cyber security operations center of the Pescara Postal Police and coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office for minors in L’Aquila. The accusation is of dissemination and possession of child pornography material. The investigation, triggered by the Cncpo (National Center for the Fight against Online Child Pornography) of the Postal Police and Communications Service of Rome, originates from a report by the Childhood Emergency Service 114, relating to sharing, on social groups, as well as of child pornography content, including stickers-memes of a zoophilic, necrophilic, scat, splatter nature, as well as extreme violence, apology for Nazism-fascism, extreme sexual acts and mutilations, acts of cruelty towards humans and animals. innocent victims whose pain, instead of shaking consciences, was the object of ridicule, fun and sharing by the group of adolescents. The Postal Police investigators, with painstaking work, analyzed over 85,000 messages in five different social groups, in order to identify the authors. The operation also involved, in the executive phase, the cyber security operating centers of the Postal Police of Puglia, Lazio, Lombardy and Campania.