Patricia Bullrich: "This pedophile network of great sophistication is disjointed"

On Wednesday, they arrested the pediatrician of Garrahan Hospital Ricardo Alberto Russo, who was head of the immunology and rheumatology department of the health center. He is accused of production, distribution, possession and facilitation of child badgraphy He refused to testify and prosecutor Daniela Dupuy will request his detention on remand, saying that "there is enough evidence against him". Experts confirmed that the professional had 135 videos with explicit bad material from boys.

Public Safety Minister Patricia Bullrich explained that the detainee was part of "a network of pedophilia of high sosfisticación, that disarticulates". He added that the network was under investigation for months and that there were more than 100 raids in the country. The official said that the same Wednesday was arrested in Rio Tercero, Córdoba, another member of the pedophile network accused of producing and distributing badgraphic material in the same places as Russo.

The official stated that the operations in the doctor's house took place on November 22, 2018 and that the prosecutor was investigating "how much material seized was taken to the hospital and in other places where the doctor was working. "Since the tests found involve children between 6 months and 14 years old and in many pictures, there were stretchers.

The case was born as part of the international investigation called "Luz de Infancia III", conducted by the United States Internal Security Authorities (FBI) and the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Brazilian Indictment. The record derives from ramifications that existed in Argentina, which is why it quickly began to act as a specialized prosecutor's office at the local level.

Russo is 55 years old and was head of the Garrahan Children's Immunology and Rheumatology Department. He was arrested Wednesday on the parking lot of this health center after a series of attacks related to the investigation. In fact, videos and photographs have directly involved in an international network of production and distribution of child badgraphy, operated on the "deep web" with users in Brazil and the United States . The arrest was requested by the office of the special prosecutor in charge of computer crimes in the city, in charge of prosecutor Dupuy. The case was entrusted to the judge of criminal cases, contraventions and misdemeanors 24 María Alejandra Doti.

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