Overview
- The probe began after a missing-person report in La Rioja, where analysis of the victim’s phone revealed explicit and aggressive sexual messages and violent domination videos sent by an adult contact.
- Authorities attribute alleged crimes of sexual assault, corruption of minors, illegal detention, inducing a minor to leave home, and disobedience to law enforcement.
- Investigators identified a 39-year-old registered in Granada who had approached the girl via social media and referenced their age difference in sexualized exchanges.
- When contacted by phone, the suspect admitted being with the missing minor but refused to reveal her location; officers later located and detained him and returned the girl to her parents.
- A search of the lodging linked to the suspect uncovered various sexual objects, and the Guardia Civil’s judicial police unit has placed the case before the competent court while noting a standing control order for a prior alleged assault on a 15-year-old.