185 child pornography videos are being trafficked daily in Argentina

The data was provided by the director of the Criminal Investigation Corps of Buenos Aires, Enrique del Carril, which mentioned the 185 daily videos in 2019 and a total of 66,000 in 2018.

"We are among the countries where child badgraphy trafficking is most prevalent," said Del Carril, in connection with the arrest of Argentine pediatrician Ricardo Russo, accused of "possession for purposes of distribution, facilitation and production after Thursday's hearing ". child badgraphy ".

The Justice porteña signed an agreement in 2013 with the non-governmental organization National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), an online system set up by the US Congress, which receives reports from companies operating on the Internet such as Facebook, Twitter or Gmail.

Del Carril said that the United States and Brazil were at the forefront of child badgraphy content trafficking on the Internet, but that Argentina was also among the countries that viewed this type of file the most.

"When we reached the agreement, we received 35 cases a week," said the director of the Corps, specializing in computer law.

Thanks to this agreement, Buenos Aires Research Unit Detected that the year-to-year average of child badgraphy postings in May was 135 situations per day, a figure that for the period of 2019 stood at 185 cases per day, explained Del Carril.

In Argentina, 66,000 cases of child badgraphy were recorded in 2018, among which there are also practices of "badter" – the sending of badgraphic material via cell phones and computers made by the teenagers themselves. same.

As for the Argentine pediatrician, the prosecutor of the case, Daniela Dupuy, explained in the resolution published last Thursday that during the raid carried out at the Garrahan pediatric hospital on May 28, they met on Russo's mobile phone. "Nine photographs of two unidentified girls inside the hospital".

This resolution was signed by the criminal judge María Laura Martínez Vega, who ordered the preventive detention of Russo "until the end of the trial", for which no date has yet been set.

Dupoy informed that the photographs mentioned had been taken on November 24, 2015 and that between February and August 2018, Russo "had facilitated" the downloading of "270 videos with badgraphic content" and that in November 2018 "he had distributed seven video files via the E-mule platform. "

Similarly, 39 photos of girls on the beach, made between January 8th and 12th of last year, were also identified on the memory card of his camera.

Regarding the case, Del Carril said the Argentine justice had left "corroborate that the images were produced for criminal and non-medical purposes".

The investigation in which Russo was involved started in February 2018 with the operation "Childhood light II", involving 26 countries and coordinated by the United States to disrupt child badgraphy production and distribution networks.

Investigate the fate of the photos Russo sent

The prosecutor Daniela Dupuywho investigates a child badgraphy network involving Ricardo Russo, pediatrician Garrahan Hospital, confirmed that the investigations were trying to determine whether the photos that the defendant had taken to two naked girls in his office were intended for the illegal traffic in which he had participated or if, as his defense says, "They were part of his health work".

Dupuy reported in radio reports that "we have in principle removed between the number of images and videos of child badgraphy some photos that Russo has taken" two girls "in which she is completely naked, and the what we should corroborate whether for medical reasons, as he says and for his defense, or to produce them as part of a child badgraphy network. "

"The photographs show the bad girls and zoom in on some places of their anatomy." They were taken inside their office to the hospital, where this subject spent many hours from Monday to Friday, from so that it was almost exclusive, "he explained.

The Prosecutor indicated that "This investigation is of an international nature because these crimes are transnational and the information reaches the prosecutor's office after a job in the United States and Brazil that has registered 40 IPs belonging to this network of child badgraphy and originating in 39, Argentina ".

"With all the information, it was possible to point out that of the four people who lived at home, it was the pediatrician who was part of the network and within two hours of the confirmation we had it. already stopped, "he added.

Dupuy said that the accusation against Russo, who has been detained since last Thursday, is for "production, facilitation, possession for distribution and distribution of child badgraphy".

"The people of Garrahan Hospital are very surprised by this case and are available from the first moment for all that is needed in the investigation.We continue to work for the oral trial to proceed at most quickly, "said the prosecutor.

The staff of the Technology Crime Branch of the City Police He conducted a raid on the premises of Garrahan Hospital, as part of the investigation involving Russo.

The operation, according to police sources, allegedly took place in the offices where Russo worked and was reportedly ordered as part of Dupuy's investigation.

The technicians "They searched for electronic elements so that they could film, take pictures and check where they took pictures and shot minors."

Russo took "Nine photographs of two girls not yet identified inside the Garrahan Pediatric Hospital", explained the prosecutor in the resolution signed by the criminal judge, delegate and tort María Laura Martínez Vega, with whom she was sentenced to a term of detention of security.

The photographs were taken on November 24, 2015, prosecutor Dupuy informed during the hearing held at the Buenos Aires prosecutor's office, which began before noon and ended shortly before midnight.

"The nine images have been geolocated" on Russo's Apple phone, which was hijacked during the May 28 raid.

IN ADDITION:

Confirm that Russo photographed girls inside Garrahan Hospital

Ricardo Russo has been suspended as a member of the Argentine Pediatric Society