Social media video showing alleged rape of 16-year-old girl sparks backlash in Portugal

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00:00A recent rape case in Lisbon has shocked the country.

00:05Three young influencers allegedly filmed themselves raping a 16-year-old girl and posted the video

00:11on social media.

00:12The images were viewed by 32,000 people and no one reported it.

00:17The three suspects, aged between 17 and 19, were arrested but later released by the court.

00:24Hundreds took to the streets demanding tougher cautionary measures.

00:28They are very important for cases so graves and in this specific case in which they are influencers,

00:34they have their platforms with many followers, I think it would have been, at least, just

00:40that they had been suspended as contas, while there is a investigation, of course.

00:43The violences are becoming more systematic and the law does nothing, it is only suspended.

00:50These youths did it grave, it is a crime, and women have to be protected.

00:56Political leaders who were at the rally argued that rape should be a public crime and that

01:02social media platforms should be held responsible for sharing this content.

01:08Ines Mourinho saw an intimate video of her widely released on Telegram and decided to create

01:14the movement Don't Share, which in 2021 became an association to support victims of image-based

01:21violence.

01:22The young people's early exposure to the internet has increased access to pornographic and violent content.

01:46When they see images of pornographic, they are going to deturpate what is the essence of

01:51sexuality and, therefore, they are going to absorb the concepts or the behaviors that are

01:57completely adequate to a normal life with a partner, with a family.

02:02And this, many times, is to hold up to the behaviors that they think that is the way of

02:07relationship with others.

02:09According to the latest annual report on internal security, in the analysis of juvenile crime,

02:15crimes of a sexual nature predominate, namely the sexual abuse of children committed by minor offenders.

02:22The Portuguese internal security system also highlighted the crime of child pornography

02:27on apps such as Discord or WhatsApp.

02:30Segundo o Centro para Crianças Desaparecidas e Exploradas, estima-se que, globalmente,

02:36uma em cada oito crianças seja vítima de alguma forma de violência sexual online

02:42ou na vida real, em comparação com uma em cada cinco crianças na Europa.

02:47Estimativas mais conservadoras também dizem que quase 200 milhões de conteúdos, imagens

02:53ou vídeos exibindo uma criança a ser abusada sexualmente, circulavam amplamente na internet

02:59entre 2021 e 2023.

03:02São cerca de três conteúdos compartilhados online a cada segundo no espaço de dois anos.

03:09Joana Morão Carvalho, para a Euronews, em Lisboa.

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