Revenge porn and child pornography, two minors in the community

Revenge porn, but also the possession, dissemination and marketing of child pornography material also concerning young children. For this reason, in the morning of today, the ‘placement in community’ was arranged for two adolescents residing in Salerno. To carry out the two precautionary orders, the State Police of Salerno and the Judicial Police Section at the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Minors of Salerno. The provision by the Judge for preliminary investigations, at the request of the Public Prosecutor at the Salerno Juvenile Court. The investigations carried out by the Postal Police and by the PG Section of the CC, have allowed, in the first instance, to acquire serious indications of guilt on one of the minors who sold to a friend of his through WhatsApp some sexually explicit videos portraying his girlfriend “with the clear intent to harm her “. The investigative development then highlighted that the other minor – the one who had received the video of his friend’s ex -, as often happens, had amplified and multiplied the effects, already for if serious, of the offense: in fact, it commodified and disseminated the pornographic material received online, by bartering on group chats held on Telegram and Whatsapp to which hundreds of users adhered with the imaginable consequent “chain effects”. forensic analysis conducted by the Postal Police on cell phones in seizure against the suspects also made it possible to ascertain, at the level of circumstantial gravity, the detention of a huge amount of child pornography material, portraying other minors even at a very young age, while they posed in intimate attitudes, evidently acquired in the context of this new and alarming phenomenon – widespread also among minors – defined as sexting, i.e. the exchange of explicit contents in network, obtained, in the case of one of the two suspects, by means of a real barter that determined a continuous and substantially unstoppable dissemination on the network of the child pornography contents in question. in use by one of the arrested – “photo exchange of my ex as a pedo” -, accompanied by an intimate image of a minor from Salerno. The current judicial police operation, therefore, concretely highlights the risks deriving from the practice of sexting, very widespread among the very young. This practice, characterized by the cynicism of those who, in a casual way, almost as if it were a game, put on the net videos or porno images concerning minors (sometimes even of known people), however, and beyond any other consideration, causes devastating damage and permanent to the victims, forever marking their lives.