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Spanish police arrest woman who sold naked photos of own daughters

Spanish police have arrested a 41-year-old woman who for years sold naked images of her three underage daughters over the Internet.

Published: 11 November 2015 16:53 CET

Spanish police arrest woman who sold naked photos of own daughters

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Police began their investigation in September after her oldest daughter, aged 15, and her former partner filed a complaint at a police station in the southwestern province of Seville, police said in a statement on Wednesday.

The girl said her mother took pictures and made videos of her and her two sisters, aged seven and eight, in suggestive poses, including with a pacifier in their mouth and wearing braids.

Another eight-year-old girl, the niece of the woman's former partner, also appeared in the images made and sold by the woman.

“At first the mother told them that the images were for fashion castings and the pictures of them nude and in their underwear were needed to show their size,” police said in a statement.

But over time the woman's oldest daughters realised that the images were sold to men over a dating website.

“The mother then told them they needed money to eat and there were men who paid money for these images. The minor also told officers that she and her sisters were repeatedly beaten with a stick by her mother if they refused to take photographs.”

Police said the 15-year-old girl was sent to meet with the men who bought the images to collect the money.

The girl gave police a mobile telephone and a computer belonging to her mother that had images of her and her sisters naked.

Police arrested the woman on October 15th. They also arrested one of buyers of the images, a 49-year-old man, seven days later.

The woman has been ordered to stay away from her daughters and the niece of her former partner while the investigation continues.

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Dutch gang leader vanishes in Spain after accidental release

Karim Bouyakhrichan was arrested in January in Marbella, an upmarket tourist resort on Spain’s southern coast, along with five other members of the Mocro Maffia gang.

They are suspected of having bought 172 properties in Spain worth over €50 million ($53.5 million) to launder their gains from drug trafficking.

But the following month a court in the southern city of Málaga decided to grant him provisional release with judicial supervision, against the wishes of public prosecutors and the Spanish government. Judicial sources said Tuesday his whereabouts are now unknown.

“It is worrying news,” Justice Félix Bolaños told a news conference following a weekly cabinet meeting when asked about the case.

“I can’t comment on any court decisions, but I do trust that the state security forces will bring this person to justice as soon as possible,” he added.

The Málaga court said in its ruling granting Bouyakhrichan provisional release that the risk that he would flee could be avoided “with other less burdensome security measures” than pre-trial detention.

It imposed bail of €50,000, took away his passport and ordered him to report to the authorities twice a month.

Dutch extradition bid

At the same time Spain’s top criminal court was processing a request for Bouyakhrichan’s extradition to the Netherlands, where he is wanted for large-scale drug trafficking.

But it postponed its extradition proceedings because the Málaga court intended to put Bouyakhrichan on trial first for money laundering, court sources told AFP.

When the Netherlands provided more information to back its extradition request, the top court summoned him to testify and when he failed to appear a fresh warrant for his arrest was issued.

Vincent Veenman, a spokesman at the Dutch public prosecutor’s office in The Hague, said it was “unknown” to them why Bouyakhrichan had not been detained for extradition.

“We are currently awaiting a decision on the extradition request,” he added.

“Our experience with the Spanish justice system is that this cooperation is generally good. Dozens of suspects are handed over every year.”

Bouyakhrichan’s brother Samir, another leading member of the Mocro Maffia, was murdered in 2014 near Marbella, sparking a reorganisation of organised crime groups in the region.

The Mocro Maffia made international headlines in 2022 after it emerged that Dutch Crown Princess Amalia had been placed under heavy protection in response to fears of an attack by the group.

Dutch media reported earlier last week that the 20-year-old heir to the Dutch throne studied in Madrid after being forced to ditch plans to live in student accommodation in Amsterdam because of the threats.

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