translated from Spanish: Sextortion: a man will go to trial for viralize intimate videos of her ex

Sánchez Paula Frega (28) is the first person in Argentina that manages to bring to trial to his former partner by disseminating videos and intimate pictures of her. His case gained notoriety nationally in June 2017 when man was prosecuted with pre-trial detention (but with the benefit of release) for the offences of “coercion” and “qualified minor injury”, impounded by 30 thousand pesos and sent to trial after a reason at Court No. 3 of La Rioja to the judge Gustavo Farías.La sextortion is intimate material-based blackmail and increasingly women subjected to this new type of digital violence. According to data from the Argentina’s fight against cybercrime (AALCC) Association, a Buenos Aires chaired NGO dedicated to matter which provides training to security forces and has a Cabinet psychological victims, complaints by diffusion of intimate material increased by 20% between 2016 and 2018, while those of sextortion rose 35%. The main difference between one and another is asking in sextortion, blackmailer threatens money for do not materialize. Statistics compiled over the past two years by the AALCC give count that there were nearly 650 complaints by pornovenganza (broadcasting of erotic content from a person without their consent) and around 3,500 by sextortion. The pornovenganza is currently configured in the computer crime and establishes a term of imprisonment of 6 months to 2 years or a monetary fine. While the expected aggravated can lead sentence of 1 to 3 years.

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