KUALA LUMPUR — Three Malaysians are among the 1,000 suspected paedophiles across the globe who were tricked into engaging a computer-generated child for sex tourism, the Dutch activists behind the operation revealed.
Declining to provide details about the suspects other than that their identities were gleaned from sources such openly available, such as Google and Facebook, the Terre des Hommes group said the information has been passed on to authorities.
“Three of them are from Malaysia. Their names were handed over to Interpol. We hope Interpol will exchange the information with the various countries,” a spokesman from the group was quoted as saying by The Star on its website today.
The group’s sting operation came to light after it uploaded a video “Stop webcam child sex tourism!” that showed what appeared to be a Filipino girl named “Sweetie” talking about her experiences with paedophiles, before going on to reveal that she was a virtual character.
Whenever a paedophile engages Sweetie for webcam sex, the Dutch group would attempt to trace details that could identify him. Once successful, the information was collated and presented to the appropriate authorities.
Terre des Hommes said that law enforcement data showed that some 750,000 sex predators prowl the Internet at any one time, although few are ever prosecuted.
“But instead of hundreds of thousands of convictions, we could only find six men who’ve ever been charged,” the video said.
Star/Malay Mail
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