Paedophile hunters are having a huge impact on the fight to get sick sexual predators off the streets of England and Wales.
An FOI request from the BBC showed 67% of police forces used evidence from paedophile hunting groups to help charge suspects. Some 150 suspects were actually charged as a result.
The supplied data showed the number of police forces using this information has risen 7 fold in 2 years – from 20 in 2015 to 150 in 2017.
The Beeb said: “Of the police forces that responded, almost half (47%) of the cases of the crime of meeting a child following sexual grooming used evidence from so-called paedophile hunting groups in 2017.”
Often groups will pose as a young boy or girl online in some kind of chatroom. The paedophile will then usually approach them, attempt to engage them in some sexual activity or arrange to meet up with them. When they’ve revealed themselves to be a sexual predator, often the paedophile groups will travel to meet them and call the police before handing over the evidence.
Paedophiles and child abusers are scum. They’re the lowest of the low. They need to be removed from society and it’s thanks to these hunting groups that many are being taken off the streets and young children are being protected.