The National Police has arrested a primary school teacher in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) for possession and distribution of child pornography. During the search of the arrested teacher’s home, agents seized more than 100,000 files with child sexual abuse content, according to a statement released by the National Police this Monday.
The investigation began when police discovered, during a network scan, a person sharing pornographic material involving minors through eDonkey (P2P) networks, which, in turn, distributed hundreds of files related to child sexual abuse.
The detainee used one of the most widely used online networks in Spain, where users from anywhere in the world can connect and thus download, as well as share files of any type, such as images and videos with pedophilic content.
As a result of police investigations, researchers managed to identify and locate the suspect, a teacher who worked at a Primary Education center, although at the time of his arrest he was on medical leave.
During the entry and search of the teacher’s home, by judicial order, the police seized computer hardware and mass storage devices, where he kept the illegal files, in which more than three terabytes of storage and more than 100,000 files were found.
In the exploitation phase of this police operation, the UCC -Central Cybercrime Unit of the General Judicial Police Station-, group 22 of the BPPJ -Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Barcelona- and the Local Judicial Police Brigade of Sant Adrià participated jointly.