Meet the CGI girl that busts pedophiles

SRINI87 · November 6, 2013

Say hello to Sweetie, she’s a ten year old girl from the Philippines but not your typical child. Sweetie is 100 per cent computer generated and her job is to attract paedophiles and help Terr des Hommes, a Dutch organisation, put a stop to webcam child sex tourism.

Sweetie was especially designed to look like an average Filipino girl. The reason for her chosen nationality, was because it’s thought that there are tens of thousands of children being exploited in the Philippines alone. Eastern Asia is one of the worst parts of the world for this sort of crime, since it features the perfect storm of an already established child sex trade, big problems with poverty and a sudden increased uptake in digital technology that facilitates the exploitation. The perpetrators are often from more developed countries, willing to pay tens of dollars to see what they need to get off.

Here’s how it works. Sweetie’s handler at Terr des Hommes connects to a public chat room and announces themselves as a 10 year old girl. The messages and offers for chat from large numbers of people pour in and private conversations begin. Those that request to webcam with Sweetie are allowed to do so, as long as they do the same.