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## Video: 'Virtual' Child Lures Online Sex Predators

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_Published 2013-11-05. A Dutch N-G-O has identified a thousand pedophiles in a unique sting operation._


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## Transcript

>> My name is Sweetie. I'm ten years old. I live in the Philippines. Everyday I have to sit in front of the webcam and talk to men.

>> When she logs online to internet chatrooms, Sweetie is bombarded by requests.

>> The men ask me to take off my clothes. They undress.

>> Men from all over the world, three, four, five times her age ask her to perform sexual acts in front of her webcam.

>> As soon as I go online, they come to me. Then hundred-- every hour, so many.

>> But Sweetie also has a secret.

>> But what they don't know, I'm not real. I'm a computer model made piece by piece to track down these men who do this.

>> She's the creation of Dutch NGO Terre des Hommes. They use her avatar to pose on internet chat rooms baiting men who go online to prey on young children. In ten weeks, the charity says some 20, 000 men contacted Sweetie with 1, 000 offering her money for explicit acts. A number, the charity's director says illustrates the demand.

>> With the extension of the internet, with the decreasing prices of the internet, it will get more and more accessible not just for the western part of this globe but also for a developing world, which means that there will be more victims, there will be more children expose to this phenomenon.

>> The charity has launched a campaign to end so- called Webcam Tourism, where men go online to pay children from developing countries to perform sex acts.

>> We have shifted our attention to the demand side. If nothing is being done about the source of the problem, this phenomenon will only increase even forever.

>> The charity has given the identities of the 1, 000 men who offered Sweetie money to authorities. While Sweetie's true identity is now known, it's hoped she'll act as a deterrent. The project serving as a warning to predators that they can also become prey.

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