Activists ensnare online paedophiles
Well done these activists for highlighting a real issue ..
A group campaigning against child sex exploitation has run an online sting operation which caught thousands of paedophiles trying to solicit a computer-generated 10-year-old girl.
More than 20,000 separate users were ensnared over the course of 10 weeks, all trying to watch the virtual Filipino child Sweetie perform indecent acts via a webcam.
Researchers from the Netherlands-based activists group Terre des Hommes logged in to public chat rooms under the alias of Sweetie, an apparently real girl who they identified clearly by country of origin, gender and age.
The results were shocking, according to the group’s project director Has Guyt. They found that the forums were flooded with people willing to pay to see a young child perform sex acts live online.
Using basic online search techniques, Mr Guyt’s team at a small, remote office outside Amsterdam was able to compile a dossier of 1,000 named internet users, complete with written and video evidence, engaged in the illegal activity.
The top country of origin for the adults identified was the United States with 254, followed by Britain with 110 and India with 103.
Terres des Hommes have passed their findings on to Interpol, but the online abusers will only be prosecuted if police can find evidence in their own investigations. The group said only six perpetrators of what they call “webcam child sex tourism” have ever been convicted of the crime worldwide.
“If we don't intervene soon, this sinister phenomenon will totally run out of control,” Mr Guyt said, describing it as a “cottage” industry that needs to be stamped out now.
Brit, Generally people agree what ' Sun26872 ' has said .. that it's a foreign thing ... Sun, 10.11.2013, 10.39 hrs
Spot on Fubar.. It never ceases to amaze me the level of ignorance and naivety in some people who assume that certain crimes are only native to certain countries. The "it doesn't happen where I come from and/or where I am" attitude is both incredibly naive and dangerous because there are predators out there more than happy to take advantage of such notions. The fact is peadophilia is far more rampant than what we imagine and the only way we can save our children from theses monsters is by spreading awareness and taking all the necessary steps to stop them. Being in denial will get us nowhere and the perpetrators everywhere!
How would ethnic, religious or cultural lines indicate the presence of pedophiles?
Surely no one would be dumb enough to suggest that certain crimes don't happen in certain countries? That's just laughably ignorant.
MM: So these could be children of marriages between foreigners and locals?
Sun / Wire , You are right . They might be the off spring of the former foreign settlers ........ ........ .....
Friday, 08.11.2013, 13.37 hrs ...
There are sickos all over the world. Including India :O(
Yawn.......I don't believe a single word of this crap..............they said adults 'who were willing to pay'..........How can there be 103 Indians in it?........
i'm surprised that india is a top country. i've always thought online paedophilia (the live versions do happen everywhere though) was a developed country fetish. i guess i'm wrong
100 Wise persons will have same thinking Brit ...... Wed, 06.11.2013, 10.16 hrs
Kat: Miscommunication - I was responding to MM
Folks, whatever is possible will never stop from happening .. Wed, 06.11.2013, 09.11 hrs
Well Brit, I suppose you could start by finding out what causes pedophilia. But that would take decades of research and money.
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Since men are the guilty ones, guess the kids (female) should be kept under lock and key? It is these kids (female) who are making men, who are otherwise non corrupt, corrupt. On similar lines as the women were said to be safe when kept under lock and key on some other thread.
Then the question is - How ?
Warped minds need to be mended , swiftly ..... Wed, 06.11.2013, 08.51 hrs ....