A computer-generated 10-year-old girl has helped caught more than 1000 child sex abusers. The virtual girl called ''sweetie'' posed on video chat rooms as a young Filipino girl to track down those men who commit this abominable act, after Dutch charity organization Terre des Hommes set up a fake profile for the job.
The men, seeing how beautiful she was, irrespective of her age, offered her money to perform sexual acts like undressing herself on webcam . But it did not flashed on them they were communicating with the team behind the sting operation, and ''sweetie'' was only fooling them. It was revealed 20,000 pedophiles contacted her. Among the 20,000 that contacted her(they had no shame!), 1000 from 71 countries offered her money, including 110 Britons, 254 Americans and 103 Indians.
It was also revealed the men, out of ''hunger'' to see her nakedness, willingly gave out their true identities on Skype and other social networking sites. The charity has handed over their findings to the Police, which they are expected to use to track and arrest these child predators. Mind you, your name could be on the list(search your heart). OK I was joking.
One Australian groomer has pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit pictures of himself to the fake-10-year old known to them as ''sweetie'' and has been sentenced to two years in person.
BBC Reporter Angus Crawford paid a visit to charity organization room and saw how they logged on to a chat room as ''Sweetie.'' He said, I quote '' within seconds, like sharks, men were cycling''.
However, the European Union policing agency Europol expressed reservations about Terre des Hommes's approach."We believe that criminal investigations using intrusive surveillance measures should be the exclusive responsibility of law enforcement agencies," Europol spokesman Soren Pedersen said.