A Dutch charity NGO Terre Des Hommes created “Sweetie” to pose on Internet chat rooms and bait men who go online to prey on children. In 10 weeks, 1,000 men offered the virtual child money in exchange for her to perform explicit acts. NEW YORK — An Australian man recently became the first person to be convicted as the result of an online sex sting centered around a virtual girl. I’m 10-years-old, I live in the Philippines,” the computer generated girl said as a way of introducing herself. So many.” Men from around the world find “Sweetie” in online chat rooms, mistake her for a real child and ask her to perform sex acts in front of her webcam. “Every day, I have to sit in front of the webcam and talk to men. The men who solicit her have so far gone unpunished, until now. People with wives, people with families with children, with jobs, with cars, with houses with mortgages, with debts, you know ordinary men.” As for the man convicted in Australia, the judge found it did not matter that “Sweetie” was a “virtual child.” “What counts is that the man in question considered and thought he was dealing with a child from the Philippines,” Guyt said. “In most countries there is a huge legal problem because in many countries – it’s not even allowed – police don’t even have a mandate to carry out undercover or sting operations. ” to whether or not they participated in a variety of sexual activities from kissing to intercourse and whether they had casual or serious romantic partners.
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