Create virtual girls to detect pedophiles on the net

The Netherlands's Terre des hommes has trapped 1,000 pedophiles online after creating a 10-year-old Filipino virtual girl nicknamed "Sweetie," on the Internet.

The pedophiles contacted the virtual girl Sweetie and asked her to perform webcam sex acts.

In just two weeks, about 20,000 men from 71 different countries have contacted Sweetie, through which Interpol has identified the identity of about 1,000 of them.

Sweetie, the virtual Filipino girl, helped Terre des hommes identify 1,000 cyber-children. (Source: AFP)

By using "motion capture" technology to translate into computer model movement, Sweetie's girlfriend appears online just like a real person.

In 10 weeks, four members of Terre des hommes took turns bringing virtual girls to public chat rooms on the Internet. Sweetie has received offers from more than 20,000 "online children's hunters" from 71 countries and territories, willing to pay for the use of pornographic webcams.

At the press conference held on 4 November in La Haye, the representative of the Terre des hommes organization, said: "If in two months we identify the 1,000 early offenders, For a year, the police could have 100,000 such criminals. "

In addition, Terre des hommes also wants to put pressure on governments to take measures against the phenomenon of "online sex tourism" . The call of the Organization posted on the Internet has received more than 7,000 share on Facebook.

According to UN data, there are about 750,000 child sex criminals on the Internet. The target audience is Asian children such as Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines and Vietnam. Only in the Philippines have tens of thousands of children are victims of these "predators."