Digital girl 'Sweetie' used by Dutch activists to track 1,000 alleged s*xual predators,
An international children's rights group said on Monday it had passed details of 1,000 alleged Internet s*x offenders to Interpol after trawling video chatrooms with the aid of a computer-generated 10-year-old Filipina 'girl' named Sweetie.
Terre des Hommes urged authorities to tackle the growing problem of minors being coaxed into performing s*xual acts in front of a webcam, and said it would provide them with the technology it had developed.
"The predator won't come forward. The victim won't come forward," Terre des Hommes activist Hans Guyt told a news conference in The Hague. "This requires a new way of policing."
The group's researchers were inundated with potential predators when they went online with a lifelike, digitally-animated persona named Sweetie.
Her video chat partners thought they were talking to a Filipina minor, but in fact they were communicating with a team in a warehouse in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, who were recording everything and looking for clues to their identity.
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