A mayor from Giurgiu county, accused of child pornography after sending an indecent image to a minor. Searches at the town hall and the mayor's residence
Police officers perform house searches at addresses in Bucharest and Ilfov, September 24, 2024. (representative image) Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The mayor of the Izvoarele commune in Giurgiu, Silviu Marius Cazacu, is being investigated in a file regarding the crimes of child pornography, sexual corruption of minors and influencing statements, the mayor's office and his home were searched, according to sources close to the investigation, quoted by Agerpres and News.ro.
“Today, January 19, 2026, the police officers of the Giurgiu Organized Crime Service, together with the prosecutors of DIICOT – Giurgiu Territorial Office, implemented two home search warrants, at the headquarters of an institution and a man's home, in a criminal file regarding the commission of child pornography, sexual corruption of minors and influencing statements. Following the searches, “several data storage devices were discovered and seized, computer searches will be ordered. The hearings will take place at the DIICOT headquarters”, according to a press release sent on Monday by the County Police Inspectorate (IPJ) Giurgiu.
Mayor Cazacu was targeted last week by a protection order issued by the Giurgiu Court against him, at the request of the family of a 13-year-old minor. The girl's parents accused him that the mayor would have approached the minor and made indecent proposals to her, accompanied by images of a sexual nature.
The mayor admitted, through a post on his page on a social network, that during the months of August and September of last year, he would have come into contact with the girl in question online, but without knowing her age.
“I fell into a trap”
According to the organization Centrul Filia, the mayor started talking to the girl on Snapchat. During the conversations the girl told him that she was 13 years old. The mayor asked her for pictures of her naked, proposed to meet her and sent her photos with sexual content.
“I saw a change in the child, from my point of view, for the worse. He was no longer the same smiling, open child. I took the phone and told him that I would no longer give him the phone. To unlock it for me. I found pictures of the mayor. Indecent pictures, messages, where he asked her to undress, to meet,” the girl's mother told the Observer.
According to the same source, the parents accuse the mayor of trying to buy their silence. “He started putting pressure on us. He sent various people to our house to beg us to forgive him and accept what he is offering us,” the mother added.
The mayor of Izvoarele commune stated that he sent the picture by mistake.
“An indecent picture was sent by mistake. Not mine. It was a picture from an application. With the technology we live with today, unfortunately some of us are beyond our control. We also fall into certain traps. I fell into a trap, not knowing that this person is a minor,” said the mayor.
