arrested for pedophilia he is an unsuspected professional, fifty-year-old and Italian. The man produced large amounts of child pornography and for years he was active in the virtual community of pedophiles The Love Zone (Tlz).
For more than a decade it was Shadow, the “thin man”, who had managed to evade investigations on the Darkweb. with computer knowledge to turn him into “a scarlet primrose”, but he was also identified through the use of undercover agents of the National Center for the Fight against Child Pornography Online (Cncpo) of the Postal and Communications Police Service.
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Arrested for pedophilia, Shadow’s anonymous life
“Shadow” led an anonymous life but was also a sexual predator with victims, even under the age of 10, whom he lured on the web. The agents of the Postal Police, coordinated by the Rome prosecutor’s office, who managed to identify and arrest him, put an end to the hunt.
Against him, the prosecutor of Piazzale Clodio Eugenio Albamonte contests several crimes: aggravated sexual assault, criminal association aimed at spreading pedophilic practices, sharing useful information to request minors and the exchange, possession and dissemination of child pornography.
Hundreds of thousands of videos and photos.
Hundreds of thousands of such images, including videos and photos, have been found. Correos has launched a preventive detention order issued by the capital’s investigating judge. Based on what was reconstructed by the investigators, in a complex investigation that also involved police officers from other countries, the arrested man worked for years in a virtual pedophilia community called ‘The Love Zonè (Tlz). A now closed community where he made child pornography available to users.
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Tlz, what is Tor network pedophile community
Investigations were also hampered by the user’s absence from the dark web for more than a year: in fact, the 50-year-old man had tried to lose himself. According to the collected elements, Shadow has been actively participating in the Tlz Tor network pedophile community: a transnational organization to which many members belonged, whose objective was to disclose and exchange a considerable amount of child pornography while remaining anonymous and evading the controls of the police forces.
The community was well structured, providing a precise hierarchy and well defined roles.with a special section dedicated to producers of multimedia content created with the exploitation of minors under 18 years of age. Investigators seized hundreds of thousands of videos and photos of him. To arrive at the identification of him the agents of the postal service they also worked undercover: They posed as users of the virtual communities used by pedophiles to exchange material and potential victims.
The investigation is not closed.
An analyst and a Europol expert specialized in darkweb live forensics also participated in the investigations.who supported staff at the National Center to Combat Online Child Pornography.
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The investigations will continue with the analysis of all the seized material: the objective of the investigators is to find out about other episodes of violence against very young victims.
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