El delito de grooming enmarcado en el COIP y su afectación a los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes

Abstract

Abstract: Nowadays, the advancement of technology has made it accessible to all people, which has increased the number of illegal acts through the different digital platforms. As for these illegal acts, computer crimes arise, which involve typical, unlawful and culpable conduct, thereby configuring the fraud in cyber crimes. Currently, these electronic or computer crimes are called the crime of grooming, childgrooming, cyberbullying or, as the countries of Peru and Colombia call it, computer crimes. In Argentina, however, it is called grooming and in Ecuador, it is called "contact for sexual purposes by electronic means." This crime is doctrinally known as pederast or pedophile deception, since it consists of contacting a minor through different electronic means, to first gain the friendship of these minors until the meeting is arranged for sexual or erotic purposes. Therefore, for this crime to be committed, it is necessary to execute some consecutive acts, which if not analyzed by the legislators and left solely to the judge's discretion, these acts may end up going unpunished for the active subject of the crime.