Sweetie 2.0: new virtual girl goes on pedo hunt

Gay fathers with children, cheerful students, businessmen and a boy with a beautiful girlfriend. They were exposed as child molesters in 2013. Four Dutch researchers were hidden behind Sweetie, virtual Filipino girl developed by aid organization Terre des Hommes.

Dozens of interviews
Men who seek out online sex with children, coming from April in the crosshairs of Sweetie 2.0, the successor to the 'girl' from 2013. Version 2.0 is much larger, says project leader Hans Guyt. With Sweetie loved "his" people 10 weeks nineteen chatrooms eye, but according to the FBI, there are 40,000 Internet forums where men seek Webcam. Therefore, the final touches are put on a "chatbot" because that's Sweetie 2.0. ,, She roams the same time 100 to 200 chat rooms and executes dozens of calls simultaneously. ''

That talk does no one come to pass more. ,, That chatbots carry no intellectual conversation, but you do not. Children in Manila might know about 250 English words. And there really is not asked what the weather is like. That really goes immediately from Jan grasp the handrail '' In other words. The musty proposals do not long in coming.

More promising
Sweetie 2.0 seems even more promising than its predecessor in 2013. Then took the project of Terre des Hommes for noise, disbelief, even criminal convictions. were exposed more than a thousand child abusers from 71 countries. And finally the relief organization had the attention to the phenomenon that she was in his sights in 2011, when child prostitutes admittedly disappeared from the disco, but appeared to dive behind the webcam.

But the massiveness of the child sex tourism did not change. Still go every day an estimated 750,000 men online webcam sex with children. The aim is to bring that number is now really down, by means of a 'deterrence' for surfing pedophiles.

Ordinary people
Forensic psychologists who work with Terre des Hommes are convinced that a reduction can be achieved by confronting abusers with what they do. ,, We have seen, thanks Sweetie that it is very ordinary people, a family, a job, a club of friends. They lose a lot. ''

To monitor whether the shock effect really works, Tilburg University is on. Examining - again using software - or if Sweetie 2.0 has wreaked havoc indeed fewer pedophiles go the web.

Source: http://www.ad.nl / By: Carla van der Wal / Photo: Terres des Hommes / Benno Neeleman.