Solve : Computer-generated 'Sweetie' catches online predators?

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Answer» More than 100 Britons were among 1,000 men caught trying to pay a computer-generated child to perform sex acts online, after a Dutch children's charity set up a fake profile. Terre des Hommes carried out a 10-week sting near Amsterdam, posing on video chat ROOMS as "Sweetie", a 10-year-old Filipina girl. Some 20,000 men contacted her, with 1,000 found to have offered her money. When I visited the charity's operations room - in a warehouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam - I watched as a researcher logged on to a chat room as Sweetie - incredibly life-like but created by a computer. Within seconds, like sharks, men were circling. Of the 1,000 men who were willing to pay Sweetie to take off her clothes in front of a webcam, 254 were from the US, followed by 110 from the UK and 103 from India. Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24818769I daresay some people will see this as "entrapment", but in my opinion those men deserve to be prosecuted. I believe in the USA the FBI and state police forces mount sting operations like that. I think it would not count as 'entrapment' if the perpetrator was instigating the illegal activity. Hence offering money to a minor for censored gratification. Now if the minor was offering 'censored opportunities' then that would be entrapment and wrong on the part of the people trying to catch wrong doing. Quote from: Mulreay on November 05, 2013, 01:13:39 PM I think it would not count as 'entrapment' if the perpetrator was instigating the illegal activity. Hence offering money to a minor for censored gratification. Now if the minor was offering 'censored opportunities' then that would be entrapment and wrong on the part of the people trying to catch wrong doing. I don't think it matters which way around it HAPPENS. If a minor OFFERS censored opportunities, and the recipient of the offer ACCEPTS knowing that they are a minor, then that recipient is quite RIGHTLY treated as a criminal. Entrapment does matter when it comes to.. well entrapment. I agree that the scum need catching but entrapment is a very specific legal situation and so it should be. A 15yr old girl instigating censored activity is not entrapment however a government placing a 'young looking' person for entrapment can not be held in a court of law as you instigated the situation and there was no chance of a victim. Personally, I think this is a great thing they've managed to accomplish. I don't think this is really entrapment, because you're not forcing anyone to do anything, or even trying to get someone to do something they normally wouldn't, more just allowing them to make a decision they would have already made in a similar scenario. Good on the group that did this.In any types of sting operations the child never offers sex or anything like that, its always the pervs to do offer it. So its not entrapment, because the perv offers it, not the child. The perv try's controls the whole situation, and thus try's to take advantage of the child.

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More than 100 Britons were among 1,000 men caught trying to pay a computer-generated child to perform sex acts online, after a Dutch children's charity set up a fake profile.

Terre des Hommes carried out a 10-week sting near Amsterdam, posing on video chat ROOMS as "Sweetie", a 10-year-old Filipina girl.

Some 20,000 men contacted her, with 1,000 found to have offered her money.

When I visited the charity's operations room - in a warehouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam - I watched as a researcher logged on to a chat room as Sweetie - incredibly life-like but created by a computer.

Within seconds, like sharks, men were circling.

Of the 1,000 men who were willing to pay Sweetie to take off her clothes in front of a webcam, 254 were from the US, followed by 110 from the UK and 103 from India.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24818769I daresay some people will see this as "entrapment", but in my opinion those men deserve to be prosecuted. I believe in the USA the FBI and state police forces mount sting operations like that.
I think it would not count as 'entrapment' if the perpetrator was instigating the illegal activity. Hence offering money to a minor for *censored* gratification.
Now if the minor was offering '*censored* opportunities' then that would be entrapment and wrong on the part of the people trying to catch wrong doing. Quote from: Mulreay on November 05, 2013, 01:13:39 PM

I think it would not count as 'entrapment' if the perpetrator was instigating the illegal activity. Hence offering money to a minor for *censored* gratification.
Now if the minor was offering '*censored* opportunities' then that would be entrapment and wrong on the part of the people trying to catch wrong doing.

I don't think it matters which way around it HAPPENS. If a minor OFFERS *censored* opportunities, and the recipient of the offer ACCEPTS knowing that they are a minor, then that recipient is quite RIGHTLY treated as a criminal.
Entrapment does matter when it comes to.. well entrapment. I agree that the scum need catching but entrapment is a very specific legal situation and so it should be.

A 15yr old girl instigating *censored* activity is not entrapment however a government placing a 'young looking' person for entrapment can not be held in a court of law as you instigated the situation and there was no chance of a victim. Personally, I think this is a great thing they've managed to accomplish. I don't think this is really entrapment, because you're not forcing anyone to do anything, or even trying to get someone to do something they normally wouldn't, more just allowing them to make a decision they would have already made in a similar scenario. Good on the group that did this.In any types of sting operations the child never offers sex or anything like that, its always the pervs to do offer it. So its not entrapment, because the perv offers it, not the child. The perv try's controls the whole situation, and thus try's to take advantage of the child.

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