Computer-generated 'Sweetie' catches online predators

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A Dutch children's rights organization is warning of an epidemic of minors being paid to perform sexual acts via webcams and is urging police around the world to crack down on the practice.

Terre des Hommes, a Dutch-based organization that works to stop child exploitation around the world, said Monday that to gauge the scale of the problem it created a computer-generated 10-year-old Philippines girl called Sweetie. It says she was bombarded with offers in an online chat room to pay for webcam sex shows.

Terre des Hommes director of projects Hans Guyt says, "If we don't intervene soon, this sinister phenomenon will totally run out of control."

The organization says it identified 1,000 online predators during a 10-week investigation and will hand details to Interpol.


Source : Sapa-AP /sdv
Date : 04 Nov 2013 16:33
 
Terre des Hommes, a Dutch-based organization that works to stop child exploitation around the world, said Monday that to gauge the scale of the problem it created a computer-generated 10-year-old Philippines girl called Sweetie. It says she was bombarded with offers in an online chat room to pay for webcam sex shows.
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Must've been one hell of a realistic CG model to get loads of pervs to offer their services.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24818769

More than 100 Britons were among 1,000 men caught trying to pay a computer-generated child to perform sex acts online, after a Dutch children's charity set up a fake profile.

Terre des Hommes carried out a 10-week sting near Amsterdam, posing on video chat rooms as "Sweetie", a 10-year-old Filipina girl.

Some 20,000 men contacted her, with 1,000 found to have offered her money.

The names of these men - including 110 Britons - were passed to police.

When I visited the charity's operations room - in a warehouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam - I watched as a researcher logged on to a chat room as Sweetie - incredibly life-like but created by a computer.

Within seconds, like sharks, men were circling.

Of the 1,000 men who were willing to pay Sweetie to take off her clothes in front of a webcam, 254 were from the US, followed by 110 from the UK and 103 from India.

Researchers used evidence including profiles on Skype and social media to identify the suspects....
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[video=youtube;GzlX2PtouM4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzlX2PtouM4[/video]
 
I don't see how this is going to work. Loli pics are legal so how is an animated character any different?
 
Beerisgood said:
I don't see how this is going to work. Loli pics are legal so how is an animated character any different?
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Not sure, I wondered about the entrapment part, but maybe they just allowed the pedos to make the offer and they are nailing them for enticement.
 
Nice concept, but this could backfire on them in the US.
At least one of them will argue that they knew it was just a contruct - and that is not illegal.
And any evidence found based on the arrest will then probably be tainted and inadmissable in court.
And the the floodgates will open - on entrapment, wrongfull arrest, etc.
 
Are guys meant to believe that the girl is real or is it just allowing them to play out their 'fantasies'? Paedos have poor uncanny valley skills if they think that's real. Does this mean they will use GTA5 Online to catch criminals? :D
 
Compton_effect said:
Nice concept, but this could backfire on them in the US.
At least one of them will argue that they knew it was just a contruct - and that is not illegal.
And any evidence found based on the arrest will then probably be tainted and inadmissable in court.
And the the floodgates will open - on entrapment, wrongfull arrest, etc.
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I agree with most of this, but isn't entrapment only when they solicit you into doing something you wouldn't normally do?
 
Garyvdh said:
Not sure, I wondered about the entrapment part, but maybe they just allowed the pedos to make the offer and they are nailing them for enticement.
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I think they're also trying to bring in the [can't think of the word so I'll just use "thing"] thing whereby they assume that if you're doing it now you've probably done it in the past.

Don't know if that will stand up in a court of law though.
 
this is a very good initiative
 
They didn't technically commit a crime and they can argue that they were well aware that it was CGI.

BUT...now the cops have them on their radar. That's awesome...
 
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