Child Sex Sting Catches 1,000 Paedophiles

[Faline]

A team of paedophile hunters has caught 110 Britons asking a fake Filipino 10-year-old to commit sex acts for money online.



The Brits were among a total of 1,000 offenders from 65 countries.

They were identified in a ten-week period by four researchers who carried out a sting by posting details of a fake girl in chat rooms.

The operation was carried out by a team from child protection organisation Terre Des Hommes Netherlands, which created a digital "avatar" of a 10-year-old girl who could interact with the offenders online.

Researchers were able to manipulate the "avatar", which they called Sweetie, to make it look like she was really talking to the offenders on a webcam.

All of the 1,000, once they got talking to Sweetie, asked the fake girl to commit sex acts in exchange for payment.

Terre Des Hommes was able to identify the offenders by getting Sweetie to ask them for their credit card details.

The names were then cross-referenced against the pictures that had been taken of them on webcam and the offenders' profiles on social media.

A further 20,000 individuals engaged Sweetie in illegal conversation in the chat room within the ten week period, but could not be identified.

Terre Des Hommes carried out the research with a view to revealing the scale of what it calls "web child sex tourism" - asking a child in a developing country to commit sex acts for money, which are then viewed over a webcam.

The profile that was posted in the chat rooms, without making any reference to sex, was that of a 10-year-old girl from the Philippines.

One of the researchers told Sky News he was shocked by what the team discovered.

The researcher, who preferred only to go by the name of Peter, said: "What surprised me was how easy it was to catch these people.

"All we had to do enter a chat room, post the details of a prepubescent girl, and within 30 seconds, we had ten people wanting to talk to us. After five minutes, we had 100.

"These people have zero-risk perception. They feel the internet is a lawless place. It was easy for us to catch them.

"This shows how many people are out there trying to contact children in developing countries. We hope governments will see this as a problem and do something about it."

On the back of its research, Terre Des Hommes has released a report which underlines the scale of the problem worldwide.

As well as demonstrating how many potential offenders there are, the report says there are estimated to be tens of thousands of child victims of the webcam sex in the Philippines alone, as many more elsewhere.

The identities of the 1,000 men, including the Brits, have been passed on to Interpol so they can be given to law enforcement organisations in their respective countries.

[kellyhound]

lot of sick people in this world

[Azimuth]

So many of them out there.

[Broadjumper]

Originally Posted by kellyhound

lot of sick people in this world

Lots of sick Brits...

[Megamel29]

Good. Lock them up.

[rapeWhistle]

Does this mean Clubhouse won't be posting anymore...?

[Flaka]

Sadly for every pedo they lock up, there's hundreds more out there abusing children.

[Pyramid_Head]

20,000 sickos? That's a shit load of sick motherfuckers.

[shoelessjojackson]

Disgusting, bunch of wankers

[Faline]

Originally Posted by Broadjumper

Lots of sick Brits...

110 brits were among a total of 1,000 offenders from 65 countries. So sickos all over and imagine if this carried on. I know 54 were caught in Canada.