Two young men have been charged with blackmail and child pornography after one of them convinced a 12-year-old girl to record herself in indecent poses, the material they passed on when the minor refused to give them money, and to produce recordings with sexually explicit scenes. contents. Both were remanded in custody for 30 days.

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One of them is a 16-year-old minor from Mehedinci county, suspected of having convinced a 12-year-old girl to film herself in nude poses and send her photos and video images, and the second is a 21-year-old young man from Brasov, who blackmailed the victim , that he would release them and, when she did not give him money, passed the pornographic material to two other people, the IGPR said.

  • “The case states that in December 2022, one of the defendants initiated and developed an online relationship with the minor victim, during which he encouraged her to produce and transmit to him through the social network materials of a frank nature. sexual content.
  • Due to the minor victim’s refusal to continue the relationship and the implied production and transmission of pornographic material, in January 2023 the accused threatened to distribute and subsequently distributed several existing materials online.
  • In the same month, January 2023, the second defendant, who had access to sexually explicit materials with the minor victim, sent by the first defendant, contacted the minor victim and demanded various sums of money in order not to make these materials public. , and after her refusal, he distributed them to other people,” said a statement sent to DIICOT, cited by Agerpres.

The file involved six search warrants at homes in the counties of Brasov and Mehedinci, and several mobile terminals and a data storage device were discovered and seized.

The two were detained on Tuesday, later the judge for rights and freedoms of the Brasov court ordered their preventive arrest.

The judicial activity, which was carried out under the coordination of Brasov organized crime prosecutors, was carried out together with the Brasov Anti-Organized Crime Brigade and with the support of the Mehedinci Anti-Organized Crime Service, DIICOT said.