A forty-year-old freelancer residing in central Italy, already convicted of child pornography, was denounced by the police for driving underage girls to anorexia .

The man, according to the investigators, had hooked dozens of victims on social networks: after having stolen their trust, he had led them to dangerous weight loss and self-harm practices and to the achievement of anorexia.

On his blog he presented himself as a doctor even though he never earned his degree and defined himself as a pro-Ana coach.

THE INVESTIGATIONS - The operation, called "Free Angels" of the Postal Police of Trieste and Udine with the coordination of the CNCPO (National Coordination Center for Online Child Pornography) of the Postal and Communications Police Service of Rome, was born from a report made by a fifteen years old, hospitalized for months in the pediatric ward for eating disorders and pathologies resulting from anticonservative acts .

Thanks to his courage, the specialists of the postal police of Trieste and Udine made it to the 40-year-old.

The man told the girls to never consume more than 500 calories a day , to drink a lot of water to soothe the sense of hunger and to take cold showers to stimulate the body to spend more energy.

The agents recovered part of the chat and multimedia content sent by the victim to the "coach" and carried out other computer searches. The 40-year-old had gone even further, asking the victims for images and videos of a child pornography nature in exchange for money and gifts of various kinds .

We are now trying to identify other girls who have fallen into the myth of thinness at any cost.

(Unioneonline / D)