Incidencia del Grooming en el Ecuador y regulación en el COIP.

Abstract

With the arrival of New Technologies, the number of illicit acts committed using them has increased. Among these illicit facts, we have computer crimes, understood as typical, unlawful and guilty attitudes that are executed through electronic means or affecting them. Among the computer crimes we find grooming, known as the pedophile deception, because it consists of the contact that a person has with a minor through computer means, to obtain their confidence and subsequently carry out a sexual purpose. This crime, necessarily requires the execution of certain constitutive acts so that it can be perfected, acts that must be examined meticulously, because otherwise, they could, consequently, produce impunity for those who commit it. In Ecuador, the prompt typification of these crimes in our criminal regulations has left wide doubts about the way in which certain constituent elements of the crime should be interpreted, which entitles the judge to exercise his judgment as to these, ignoring the principles to follow as to the literal way in which the rule should be interpreted.