If predators use technology to catch their prey, then technology can also be used to nab them before they can harm kids.
“On Monday, Nov 4, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, a Dutch rights group, said it had identified over 1,000 pedophiles around the world by offering online sex with a computer-generated 10-year-old Filipina girl called Sweetie,” reports Agence France-Presse correspondent Nicolas Delaunay on InterAksyon.com.
“Sweetie” was created by the child rights group and deployed in Internet chat rooms from a remote building in Amsterdam. In a span of 10 weeks, over 20,000 predators from 71 countries asked Sweetie for “webcam sex performances.”
The creation of Sweetie is the group’s way of “raising the alarm about a new form of child exploitation, webcam child sex tourism, that has tens of thousands of victims in the Philippines alone.”
Terre des Hommes reportedly “handed over to police the identities of those who were willing to pay children in developing countries for online sex.”
Photo via Terre des Hommes
