Australian man convicted of molesting virtual girl

Scott Robert Hansen became the first person against whom fragments of correspondence with the virtual girl Sweetie were used as evidence in court. reports this The BBC .

Australian Scott Robert Hansen, who was jailed in 2010 for possessing child pornography and attempting to kidnap a child, was found guilty four years later of sending indecent photographs to a child, possessing child abuse images and failing to comply with the rules for offenders previously convicted of similar offenses. accusations.

At the same time, Hansen in practice did not send his photos to any child: without knowing it, he sent them to a computer program codenamed Sweetie, specially created to attract pedophiles. Despite this, fragments of his correspondence with her were accepted as evidence in court.

If you believe that this is a nine-year-old girl, then the law applies to you. This is quite enough. Julie Ryrie, judge

Sweetie was created by the international children's rights organization Terre des Hommes, founded in Switzerland in 1960. The goal of the project was to bait perverts who use social networks and webcams to satisfy their unhealthy needs to communicate with small children, without endangering a real child. Sweetie is an animated 3D model that is used by a team of specialists from Amsterdam to create the illusion of communicating with a real girl.

He was very direct, at one stage he asked Sweetie to call her fictional eight-year-old sister. It's hard to sleep well at night after talking to someone like Hansen. Anonymous representative of Terre des Hommes

Hansen was sentenced to two years in prison, but during the investigation he had already spent about eight months behind bars, so he was prescribed a year of treatment in a sex offender program. As representatives of Terre des Hommes noted, he was far from the worst example they encountered: punishments would follow for other men who had contact with the virtual girl.

In 2013, the creators of Sweetie reported that the “bait” worked for thousands of criminals from 71 countries. Most of them asked the little girl to perform various sexual acts in front of a webcam.

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