Pediatrician and pedopornographer | A doctor from Garr …

A 55-year-old pediatrician was arrested today while he was traveling to his Juan P. Garrahan hospital office in Parque Patricios, accused of producing and distributing child badgraphy. The arrest was requested by the prosecutor Daniela Dupuy, head of the office of the special prosecutor in charge of computer crimes of the city, and authorized by the judge of criminal cases, violators and contrary María Alejandra Doti.

The investigation began in the United States and Brazil. Homeland Security, a division of the FBI, has been alerted by the prosecution of the Brazilian prosecution on the dissemination of child badgraphy on the Internet. Specialists from both countries set up Operation Luz de Infancia III and started following the users and recipients of these images. The IP addresses led them to users in Argentina, for which they alerted the CABA Attorney General's Office.

According to this international report, issued by the public prosecutor's office and with the badistance of the prosecutor's office of criminal investigations, it was established that at least forty homes throughout the country had distributed badgraphic material. miners, resulting in almost the same number of simultaneous raids. According to authorities, head of the Immunology and Rheumatology Department of Garrahan, the doctor, Ricardo Russo, resides in one of these addresses, in the vicinity of which were sequestered a large number of data storage devices. , which are being investigated by cybercrime specialists.

The forensic badysis of the doctor's devices, carried out by experts of the national gendarmerie and supplemented by officials of the specialized prosecutor's office, corroborated the fact that two pediatrician's computers had an archive of images and images. of videos whose protagonists were minors from 6 to 14 months. years filmed in explicit badual activities. It was even determined that some of the pictures found had been taken to the hospital where the arrest took place.

Russo has a broad international trajectory. She has been working in this health center since 1993, when she entered the residency until she took up the position she has held for ten years. Received at the University of La Plata in 1986, he worked at the Pediatric Hospital of that city until 1990, before settling in the United States and Canada, where he worked at the University Hospital of Texas, Dallas and Toronto, Canada. According to his public profile on the social network Linkedin, he specializes in pediatric rheumatic diseases, juvenile systemic arthritis, auto-inflammatory syndromes and macrophage activation syndrome. He is badistant editor of the Journal of Rheumatology and has more than 150 published works that have been read by more than 18,000 people. Upon arrival in Garrahan, he focused on training young doctors and collaborating on research projects, while developing guidelines for the treatment of childhood arthritis and related diseases. He is also co-director of the register of auto-inflammatory diseases in Latin America and has actively participated in international badociations such as the SHARE guidelines, the UCAN-DU project, the INCHARGE consortium and the SHEPPARD and JAMLess projects.

Now, the Office of the Prosecutor is about to report the facts on which the doctor has investigated, which will enable him to be informed of the facts that are attributed to him and the evidence gathered against him. After that, the procedural situation of the accused will be decided.

At the same time, Garrahan announced in a statement that Russo had been "removed from office until justice was done."