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divdiv class=story-body readability=43 span class=story-date#13; span class=date5 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time07:56 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; span class=byline byline-photo img src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70548000/jpg/_70548871_70548870.jpg alt=Angus Crawford/span class=byline-nameBy Angus Crawford/span span class=byline-titleBBC News/span /span !-- Embedding the video player --#13;!-- This is the embedded player component --#13;#13;#13; #13; #13;#13;#13;#13;!-- wwrights check --#13;!-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13;#13;#13;#13;div class=videoInStoryB readability=2#13; div id=emp-24819538-83384 class=emp#13; #13; #13; noscript#13; div class=warning readability=1#13; img class=holding src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70913000/jpg/_70913692_sweetie.jpg alt=Image of computer generated 10-year-old girl called 'Sweetie'/pstrongPlease turn on JavaScript./strong Media requires JavaScript to play./p#13; /div#13; /noscript#13; #13; !-- embedding script --#13; #13; /div#13; !-- companion banner -- #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- END - companion banner --!-- caption --p class=captionSweetie, the computer avatar catching online predators/p#13; !-- END - caption --#13; #13; #13;#13;/div#13;!-- end of the embedded player component --#13;#13;!-- Player embedded -- #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1More 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./p#13; pTerre des Hommes carried out a 10-week sting near Amsterdam, posing on video chat rooms as Sweetie, a 10-year-old Filipina girl./p#13; pSome 20,000 men contacted her, with 1,000 found to have offered her money. /p#13; pThe names of these men - including 110 Britons - were passed to police. /p#13; div class=story-feature narrow#13; a class=hidden href=#story_continues_2Continue reading the main story/a h2 class=quote“spanStart Quote/span/h2#13;blockquote readability=1p class=first-childWe did not solicit anything unless it was offered to us”/p/blockquote#13;span class=endquoteEnd Quote/span#13; span class=quote-creditHans Guyt, Terre des Hommes/span#13; #13;#13; /div p id=story_continues_2When 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./p#13; pWithin seconds, like sharks, men were circling./p#13; pOf 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./p#13; pResearchers used evidence including profiles on Skype and social media to identify the suspects./p#13; pProject director Hans Guyt told a news conference in the Hague on Monday that the crime requires a new way of policing./p#13; pThe predator won't come forward. The victim won't come forward, he said./p#13; pWe identified ourselves as 10-year-old Filipino girls./p#13; pWe did not solicit anything unless it was offered to us./p#13; span class=cross-headWorst-case scenario/span#13; pTerre des Hommes has launched a global campaign to stop webcam sex tourism./p#13; #13; pManaging director, Albert Jaap van Santbrink, said: Our worst-case scenario is that the same will happen with this phenomenon as with child pornography, which is now a multi-billion industry in the hands of criminal gangs./p#13; div class=story-feature narrow#13; a class=hidden href=#story_continues_3Continue reading the main story/a h2 class=quote“spanStart Quote/span/h2#13;blockquote readability=2p class=first-childWorking with our international law enforcement partners, we will now look at the information being passed on by Terre des Hommes”/p/blockquote#13;span class=endquoteEnd Quote/span#13; span class=quote-creditAndy Baker, National Crime Agency/span#13; #13;#13; /div p id=story_continues_3The charity has now handed over its findings to police and has said it will provide authorities with the technology it has developed./p#13; pBut European policing agency Europol has expressed reservations about the findings./p#13; pWe believe that criminal investigations using intrusive surveillance measures should be the exclusive responsibility of law enforcement agencies, spokesman Soren Pedersen told the Reuters news agency./p#13; pAndy Baker, of the UK's National Crime Agency, also said that tackling child sex abusers is best left to specialist law enforcement agencies./p#13; pBut he praised the campaign, saying it had widened awareness of a global child sex abuse threat./p#13; pWorking with our international law enforcement partners, we will now look at the information being passed on by Terre des Hommes, he added./p#13; pSweetie will not be used again. 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