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'Girl' used to find pedophiles online

November 6th, 2013
03:36 PM ET

She calls herself 'Sweetie' and this young girl can speak to hundreds of men from across the world every day.

But 'Sweetie' isn't the young girl that she seems, she is in fact a computer avatar that was being used to track down pedophiles who prey on young children around the globe.

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