Sweetie was a computer animated child that was created by children's rights organization Terre des hommes as a sting operation.
In 2013, the Dutch branch of Terre des hommes, noting that efforts to combat child sex tourism in impoverished countries had resulted in pedophiles instead seeking victims online,[1] joined forces with local advertising agency Lemz that at first preferred to remain anonymous[2] to create the animated, photorealistic image of a 10-year-old Filipina girl.
Sexual predators would open webcam connections with 'her', during which programmers would animate Sweetie as necessary in real time through motion capture.
[4] Strategy director of Lemz Mark Woerde gave one public interview to the Dutch TV show RTL Late Night to explain the intervention and to make clear, for security reasons, that they were no longer involved in Terre des hommes, Sweetie or police activities.
[6] Terre des hommes identified 1,000 suspected predators, and passed their names, IP addresses, and social media accounts on to Interpol.