He offered his services as a babysitter, sexually abused children—including infants entrusted to his care—recorded the sexual assaults, and distributed the videos online. Álvaro Iglesias Gómez, known as Nanysex, was arrested in Murcia in 2005 and sentenced to 58 years in prison three years later for five counts of sexual abuse. However, upon his arrest, he confessed to having touched over 100 children. Now, as prison sources confirm, he has been released from prison.
Details of the Conviction and Sentence Reduction
Specifically, Iglesias was convicted of eleven offenses: five counts of sexual abuse and six counts of corruption of minors. The victims, five children, were abused between 2002 and 2004 in his then hometown of Collado Villalba (Madrid) and in the Murcia region, where he later lived and was arrested. Years later, the Supreme Court reviewed the verdict and reduced his sentence by 13.5 years. He has now served this term, which is why he was released.
Cybercrime and Criminal Organization
Iglesias, who ran a computer repair business in the Murcian capital, was considered an internet expert. He used his knowledge to post homemade videos of assaults on minors, including very young children, online.
Together with his fellow pedophile accomplices Todd (from Catalonia) and Aza (from Galicia), he founded a criminal organization. Their goal was to film child rapes and distribute these recordings online – at a time when social media didn’t yet exist and such content circulated in the depths of cyberspace, where true monsters roamed.
His knowledge of the internet, especially the “deep web” – an uncontrolled area with content not covered by conventional search engines – could be valuable to the police in hunting down other pedophiles and abusers. For this reason, as this newspaper reported, he began collaborating with security forces while still in prison.
Risk of Reoffending
It should be recalled that the convicted man was diagnosed with a pedophile paraphilia. The forensic experts who examined him agreed: there was a high risk that this sex offender would reoffend.
Two decades after his arrest, the “Monster Nanysex” is now free again. He was released from Estremera prison after serving his sentence. He is not allowed to approach his victims, now adults, or communicate with them in any way for the next ten years.
Reasons for the Sentence Reduction
The Supreme Court reduced the sentence in 2008 because the court considered the aggravating circumstance of breach of trust to be inapplicable. The reasoning was that the victims’ special vulnerability had already been taken into account, as the minors were in his care. “The doctrine of this Chamber states that the same facts cannot be considered twice to justify a double aggravation of the sentence,” according to the verdict.
Confession and Rejection of Treatment
During the trial, Nanysex confessed to abusing the five children and stated that he only felt sexual desire toward children under the age of five. Given these admitted impulses, he was offered chemical castration, which he would have agreed to “if necessary.”
Apparently, however, he did not undergo this treatment. He was caught watching child pornography videos while already enjoying the third degree of relaxation of his sentence at the Center for Social Integration (CIS) in Alcalá.
“Dead Pedophiles”: The Public Reaction
“Dead pedophiles. Marked, a child.” This slogan, painted in black spray paint, was emblazoned on the shutters of Álvaro Iglesias’ computer shop near Calle del Pilar in the capital, Murcia. In this shop, the convicted man not only repaired computers but also used countless internet connections to commit and disseminate his heinous acts – the records of his abuse.
The Perfidious Victim-Finding Scam
“Kangaroo at home. Experience with children and early childhood education. If you also have a computer at home, I offer computer courses for children. Availability: afternoons, nights, and weekends.” With this advertisement, placed at a time when cell phones were not yet pocket computers and computer skills were not widespread, the sex offender lured his victims.
Legal classification and current status
It should be noted that the public prosecutor’s office did not classify the acts as sexual coercion (aggression) during the trial. The reason: the seized images and videos did not contain any signs of intimidation or violence – at the time, a legal requirement for classifying abuse as coercion. Twenty years later, the penal code has changed. Álvaro Iglesias, however, is a free man, with no outstanding scores with the justice system or further conditions to fulfill.
