The vigilante paedophile hunters

Holding up his smartphone, the founder of an organisation called Letzgo Hunting scrolls through a long series of tiny internet profile pictures of men.

Some are in their 20s and grinning inanely, others are middle-aged with blank expressions. A few are pensioners.

All of these men, says Jamie — or ‘Scumm Buster’ as he likes to be known — are paedophiles grooming under-age girls in chatrooms and on social networking and dating sites such as ‘badoo’ and ‘tagged.com’, each of which have more than 100 million members worldwide. ‘We are currently in online contact with about 30 such men who are talking to us in a sexually explicit way as we pose as teenage girls on the web,’ Jamie says.

‘They are cunning and expert at targeting children.’  (more...)

The vigilante paedophile hunters