The chief of Police Manuel Castro Castillo has issued an impassioned call to parents to monitor their children’s use of social networks, as reported in Diario Libre.
Speaking about the problem yesterday, Wednesday 27 May 2015, Castro Castillo mentioned a case in La Romana where 20-year old Luis Rafael Morel Mejia led a group that created fake social network accounts, mainly on Facebook, “posing as young girls, in order to attract minors and even adults.”
According to the police, before agreeing to a date, the accused asked for photographs and videos of the minors undressed, and added that when they met in person, they were threatened and forced to have sex, and had to give him money under the threat of publishing the content of their emails on the networks.
Castro Castillo said that these days it is almost impossible for children to be educated without computers or smart phones, “but we urge parents to supervise them in order to prevent this type of thing from happening.”