The pediatrician arrested for child pornography said he downloaded "weird" music and movies for family sharing.

The pediatrician Ricardo Russo, head of immunology and rheumatology at Garahan hospital, arrested and accused of producing, possessing and distributing child badgraphy, said he downloaded music and movies "weird" on the internet to share with his family.

The detainee stated that he downloaded material via the P2P platform of eMule, a system used to share files that has become very popular over the last ten years. However, experts who examined the computers and notebooks removed from Russo indicated that "There is not a single movie name among more than 800 that have come down".

"The defendant tried to take from the files downloaded on the platform those who were interested in it, related to music or movies, which he then visualized with his family," he said. he explained in a letter to which the newspaper subscribes. Profile, the criminal, judge of offense and crime María Laura Martínez Vega.

"Russo has claimed to generate a conviction about this, as a film buff and pbadionate about movies defined as" weird ". downloaded video files in bulk, who previously sought to use certain search patterns, which prevented him from having complete control over what was ultimately downloaded, "said the magistrate.

Last Wednesday, the doctor was arrested on the pediatric hospital parking lot for the investigation "Luz de Infancia III", started in the United States. This is a deep web pedophile network with ramifications in Brazil and Argentina. Two days later, Judge María Alejandra Doti ordered her pre-trial detention for "possession for purposes of distribution, facilitation, distribution and production of child badgraphy".

Regarding the investigation, Martínez Vega said that it was not credible that someone who said that "from time to time He was worried about erasing and getting rid of files containing childish badgraphic content that he had acknowledged downloading.He did not know that the same program that served him had also facilitated for other users of the network. "For justice, the accused" facilitated "the downloading of" 270 videos with badgraphic content "between February and August 2018.

Finally, the judge pointed out that during the search that they had carried out at the suspect's home, he was in the company of a friend who had seen when Russo was repentant and had acknowledged that "I had digressions".

This Sunday, the pediatrician He was transferred to Ezeiza Prison and, according to Judge Martínez Vega, he ordered that he not be in touch with cell phones and computers. "Should be notified to the competent prison authorities that this preventive detention ordered implied the express prohibition of approaching and using by the accused computers or telephones called" smartphones "", a- he asked.