The youtuber Leonel Esteban Borroni (40), who was better known as “Un León Viajero”, was found dead in his home in Isidro Casanova this Saturday. In recent days he had been raided and investigated in a judicial case against him for the crime of possession and distribution of pedophile material.
The authorities were alerted to the incident by Borroni’s brother-in-law, who went to his home because he was not answering his calls. Given this worrying situation, the man entered the property and found the influencer hanged in the bathroom, with their hands and legs tied with plastic ties.
The brother-in-law called 911 and minutes later police officers along with medical personnel arrived at the scene and found that Borroni was dead.
It is believed that it was a suicide. Scientific Police officers worked at the scene and determined that the ties could have been made by Borroni himselfaccording to sources in the case Infobae.
Besides, The YouTuber’s relatives assured that he was depressed because of the legal case and that he left farewell messages on his cell phone..
The prosecutor intervenes in the death investigation Matias Folinofrom the Functional Homicide Thematic Instruction Unit of La Matanza.
Borroni had been raided last Thursday by the Cyber Crimes against Children and Adolescents Federal Police Division, within the framework of a case processed in the Prosecutor’s Office No. 2 of the La Matanza Judicial Department, in charge of Luis Brogna, with the prosecutor’s assistants. Lorena Pecorelli and Daniela Sánchez.
This file had been initiated after an alert against him from the American organization National Center For Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which depends on Congress in Washington DC and tracks movements of prohibited material.
The actions began after the analysis of 18 reports categorized as “priority Level E” from NCMEC. These documents, which included minors both Argentine and foreignwere sent to the victim identification unit of the PFA and Interpolfrom where it was found that, supposedly, there was homemade production of child pornographic material in Argentinaa crime that Borroni was not accused of.
“From the analysis of the reported material, More than 300 images of child sexual abuse material were identified, which could be unpublished -of new or own production-, visualized in the material distributed to child victims under 13 years of age, mostly males, abused by subjects of legal age, both men and women,” states a report on the case.
The image analysis, on the other hand, revealed an increasing trend: several images of child sexual abuse created with artificial intelligence.
The investigations led detectives to the homes of Borroni and three other suspects, including a 17-year-old minor, a physical education teacher and an employee of a technology company, all from La Matanza.
Electronic devices were seized at Borroni’s house. According to judicial sources, The influencer was investigated during the course of Friday. He was not detained. Cases of possession of pedophile material usually end with a suspended sentence.
Borroni had positioned himself and gained popularity in the world of social networks by documenting his travels through Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador, among other countries. With the alias “Un León Viajero”, he had accumulated 137 thousand followers on Tik Tok with 3.3 million likes, 108 thousand subscribers on YouTube, another 164 thousand followers on Instagram.
