Most prolific paedophile in Spanish-speaking world

An internet predator accused of blackmailing more than 500 children across the world into performing sex acts on camera before he sold the images has been arrested in Peru.

Arturo Dodero Tello, 29, considered the most prolific paedophile in the Spanish-speaking world, was detained on Thursday after an 18-month dual-continent undercover operation by police in Spain and Peru.

Tello faces charges of targeting children in countries across South America and Europe – including Peru, Argentina, Chile, Ukraine and Spain, and selling the videos he made of them across the world.

He is also accused of belonging to an international sex gang.

Police investigators claim he befriended his victims by using an email account where he posed as a schoolboy using the alias Maxi. He would then persuade his victims to take photos and videos in just their underwear.

Tello would subsequently blackmail them into making videos of themselves naked and performing sex acts.

Most of the girls he allegedly targeted were aged six to 10. Spanish investigators said during a press conference in Lima, the Peruvian capital, that 14 minors in Spain had come forward to claim they had been blackmailed.

Police in Spain made the first breakthrough after discovering one of the videos in a private internet forum featuring a girl with a Gran Canaria school logo on her shirt.

They tipped off colleagues in Peru after identifying the girl and obtaining Tello’s details from an email created in Argentina which his victim gave them. TRUNews