Sextorsion: "I dared to report so that other women are not afraid"

Five months have passed since he received several messages from a false profile on Facebook - he had.

They are intimate photos that I never uploaded to the networks and he began to threaten me to go out with him or I was going to publish my photos and that my whole neighborhood was going to see and unfortunately fulfilled that threat, said Margarita.

The insistence continued and before the refusal, according to the young woman, the man continued to lift the images on the networks, labeling her acquaintances.

He told me ‘I don't want money, I just want to have sex with you’ ... It was a very difficult stage that I am overcoming, it affected me a lot, as a woman, he remembered.

He said he suffered alone at the beginning and then told his relatives, that they supported her."My family was great support and I am studying now, that motivates me a lot," he said.

The Treasury Irma Llano already filed an imputation last Friday against the man who would have extorted Margarita, through the Messenger of Facebook, the agent confirmed.The young man, Carlos Acuña Samaniego (27), was prosecuted for coercion and injury of the right to communication and the image and requested six months to investigate and the application of alternative measures.

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VIOLENCE.Margarita said that sexorsion is violence, "because it takes away your freedom, and because it psychologically hurts you and you feel that you are chasing you, you are afraid," he explained as he remembered everything he lived.

Sextorsión: “Me animé a denunciar para que otras mujeres no tengan miedo”

The woman made the complaint and today the case is being investigated.

"I went to computer crimes, I said that there was a person threatening me, then they send me to police investigations and they told me that they could not take the complaint, then in the anti -kidnapping department they took the complaint as extortion," he said.

The complaint went through three more places, until finally, the Attorney General's Office derives to the Computer Crimes Unit.“In the end, the case corresponded to where I went to seek help the first time.I told all my suspicions to the Treasury and gave him all the evidence, ”said Benítez, whose cause today is headed by the Irma Llano Treasury.

Refers that the process became difficult."You don't know how to feel protected, when you request help, you denounce and people begin to make you feel that your case is not really important," he lamented.

OVERCOMING.Despite all the judicial struggle he is doing, Margarita said that it is brave to dare to make the demand.“I dared to report, because my intention is to help others who are not afraid.It is important that they be brave and seek help.I would also like to be given importance to the case ".

He explained that the causes must.

El daño que me hizo es irreparable, pero una supera, porque la vida te da solo una opción: el ser valiente. Margarita Benítez, denunciante.

"Pandemia brought a series of crimes"

Carlos Insfrán, an analyst at the Department against Cybercrime, explained to Telefuturo that new extortion crimes arrived with the pandemic.

"The number of complaints for sextorsion was increasing, 60 complaints per month come to our address, but we must join what enters other institutions," he explained.

He talked about 60% of the most affected are men, but that the index of women victims of sextorsion was also raised.Recommended being cautious on networks.

More complaints against firefighter for intimate recordings

The Treasury Irma Llano reported a few days ago that more women approached to denounce the captain of the Fire Department, Rubén Valdez, charged since Thursday by Sextantsion.

The Public Ministry raided the firefighter's house, after a complaint of his former partner, for filming without his consent the sexual relations he had with him.The woman (28) discovered the recordings, after colleagues from the Fire Department told her.

As a result, the young woman was supposedly tried.

According to Llano, as the relationship was six years, so what happened would be configured as violence.

Denies.For his part, Valdez denies the veracity of the complaints against him and points out that it is an orchestrated campaign to damage him.