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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. The police are passing up a gem by Frobnicator · · Score: 1, Troll

    In the article the police agencies from several nations are mentioned, asking the group to stop their work and let the police do it all.

    They should be partnering with the group, giving them guidance at how to report the crimes of attempted sex crimes to the right agencies and getting iron-clad evidence to the courts. The group could work wonders in avoiding child sexual exploitation globally, or at least making predators think twice.

    Instead the cops are telling them, "Let us do our job, go away." They are throwing away a gem just because they didn't do it all themselves.

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