I lost my finger when the subject of a sting became violent. I’m convinced that if he had met a real child, she would not have survived
I had a really happy childhood in Liverpool in the 1960s. Even though it must have been hard financially, Mum and Dad never showed me and my siblings that side of things. I’m 59 now and have my own children. One of my three daughters, Jessica, passed away almost three years ago and my marriage broke down. That was horrendous for the children and I’ll carry it for ever, because it was me who walked away. One of my daughters, Rebecca, is 34 and lives with me now.
It was from this perspective that I began to think about who has the right to steal a happy childhood from a child. I have never experienced sexual abuse, but when I came across a film made by a paedophile-hunter group on the internet, I identified with what motivated them. I liked the way Catching Online Predators (COP) went about their business: strictly within the law, rather than acting like out-of-control vigilantes.
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