The latest instance of online child pornography reported by authorities in Greece this week shocked even veteran detectives and cyber experts, with the alleged perpetrators being two 13-year-olds, a girl and boy, who ostensibly used an AI program to alter photos of two school mates to show them in lude imagery.
The unprecedented instance of juvenile and fabricated “revenge porn” was reported from Irakleio, on Crete, following the arrest of the two minors on felony charges.
The two pre-pubescent teens used real images of the victims, both girls, taken from Instagram, before altering them onto pornographic material. They subsequent fake pictures were then circulated over the Internet and mobile phone apps to other pupils in the secondary school that all four attended, and in a bid to humiliate the two victims.
After their arrest, each of the minors blamed each other, with the attorney for the boy claiming the girl “blackmailed” him into altering the images by threatening to have him beaten. The other 13-year-old said she was unknowing of the felonious behavior of her school mate.
Two of the four parents of the two juvenile suspects were also arrested on charges of neglecting a minor’s supervision.
The two juvenile suspects spent the night in lockup, while the two parents were released after being charged.
All four are due to face a local prosecutor.
