Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 5, 2013 @08:00AM from the trawling-the-dark-corners-of-the-internet dept.

mrspoonsi writes "Dutch researchers conducted a 10-week sting, using a life-like, computer-generated 10-year-old Filipino girl named 'Sweetie.' During this time, 20,000 men contacted her. 1,000 of these men offered money to remove clothing (254 were from the U.S., 110 from the U.K. and 103 from India). Charity organization Terre des Hommes launched a global campaign to stop 'webcam sex tourism.' It has 'handed over its findings to police and has said it will provide authorities with the technology it has developed."

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Re:profile = evidence? by Joining+Yet+Again · 2013-11-05 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny

*[13 today]:-O :==8
OH GOD IT'S ASCII CP ART! Quick, put me on the sex offenders' register!
Re:profile = evidence? by TheCarp · 2013-11-05 09:25 · Score: 5, Funny

> Does that mean when I buy a new game and rip off the cover, it's non-consensual rape?
Please that "wrapper" was practically see-through. That game was asking for it!

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