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In one titled 'Gary Savage Highbridge' on YouTube, they seem to think that they are the police. Totally cringeworthy.

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It's great to know that they are getting these filthy people off the streets and away from children but the videos online are too much.

Maybe do videos and tell us who it is and what they did so we are aware, but no need to do a full film of them.

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A lot of them clearly have learning difficulties so see nothing wrong with it because they either don't realise the seriousness of what they're doing, or have the mind of a child themselves (with the added complication of the sexual urges of an adult).

Obviously they need to be stopped from doing it, but the merciless public bullying for 'likes' (money) appears to be the main drive for a lot of them.

Some of them have found out the hard way that it would be
themselves that ended up in court.

Of course, this doesn’t apply to all of them, but the amateurish way that they do this often leads to the paedophiles (though most that i've seen are hebophiles) walking free. True paedophiles are unlikely to find children they can meet to abuse online.

Perhaps they should only be allowed to do it with police accreditation after training & passing a test/exam as a compromise? It's turned out that a fair few 'hunters have a criminal record themselves and some were probably doing it to cover up the fact that they had an interest in underage people themselves. I suspect that the drive for some is a form of revenge because they were sexually abused themselves. It's known that this screws people up as adults, so how long before someone takes the law into their own hands?

However, this seems unlikely as there are currently calls for it to be made an offence to pretend to be a child online.

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We have a member of a group on the forum but he (likely wisely) has chosen to avoid this thread.

If they do make it illegal to pretend to be a child online then would the groups use actual children (or say they did) I wonder what the law would be around that kind of thing.

Getting a Nonce off the streets is great and I do see that actually catching one on a sting which shows a willingness to actually commit physical abuse themselves would get a stronger sentence.

I would like to know if evidence is passed to the Police even if the nonce does not turn up, or at least after a shortish period of time to ensure action can be taken. These could be up to all sorts but if not actually ever turning to meet could be allowed to get away with it if the groups do not pass on information

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You seriously couldn't use real children even under adult supervision. It would be too mentally harmful for them.


I remember a couple of years back when Eastenders introduced a character who was a vigilante paedo hunter kind of thing, they actually had a few people who thought he was actually a paedo instead, generally the SL didn't really have much longevity because they couldn't keep showing him getting random extras and the only other ways they could make it run a bit is to make him either snare a resident or use some of the kids in his snaring... Of course, the soaps have had sex offenders and some references to targeting older kids (Maya/Jacob off ED) but would generally have thought that actual abuse SLs involving younger kid characters would be off limits as they'd still have to depict a child being abused.

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he is still in it and a main character now haha

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Yes, but they don't show that Stuart is doing the paedo hunting any more. They couldn't really keep that career moving for him could they?

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Yeah you are right

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Todays News at One on BBC1 showed a report near to the end highlighting the growing problem of underage sex assaults on girls in virtual reality chat rooms.

Threats to rape, males climbing on top of them, orders to strip naked were shown.

I suspect that predators will increasingly use this as a way to obtain sexual titillation.

I wonder if these 'hunting' teams will start hanging out in these places?

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Umm... assults in virtual reality ?

First of all, surely you can just turn the VR off ?
Aside from that, 'virtual reality' isnt real by definition, so it cant have any physical effect.

Also how do you even 'strip' in VR, surely it has to be programmed to allow that (and it would not be anyones actual naked body, just a drawn simulation).

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Maybe there's money to be had by becoming a 'virtual lawyer' in these alternate realities . . . probably enough to buy a virtual 8 bed mansion, a couple of Aston Martins and a big yacht in virtual Monaco.

Having said that, you'll probably get virtual scheming wives too :erm: