Chloe is 13 years old. She loves horse riding, the singer Angèle and manga One Piece. On her Facebook profile, she posts drawings, photos of horses and aphorisms. Chloe has a lot of friend requests. She receives a dozen messages from men every day. The tone is initially friendly, often paternalistic, then the comments become raw, the requests for nude shots insistent. Soon enough the photos arrive (” You want a gift ? »): erect penises, accompanied by explicit sexual propositions punctuated by “sweet words”. The most determined send videos, presented as “instructions”, showing the rape of children. “See, everyone does it…”
Their faces are sometimes recognizable when they photograph or film themselves masturbating in their bathroom, bedroom or living room. Some use a nickname, spoof teenage profiles, others post under their real name. On their page, photos of their children rub shoulders with snapshots of vacations, fishing trips or football matches. They are pedophiles who hunt online, sure of their impunity, and they are a bunch.
France was the third country in the world hosting child pornography images in 2019 according to the International Association of Internet Hotlines (Inhope). “In Europe, these reports have increased by 6,000% in the last ten years. And the content that has increased the most is for children aged 7 to 10”, said European Commissioner Ylva Johansson on May 11, 2022, stating that, globally, 85 million videos and photos involving sexual violence against minors circulated in 2021 alone.
Chloé is not 13 but 31 years old. Her name is Satie (pseudonym), is a home helper and has rejuvenated photos of her using software. While her three children are napping or watching Peppa Pigshe dialogues on Facebook with these men, discourages them, recalls her virtual age, warns that her mother isn’t far away, that she doesn’t understand why she has to send pictures of her without pajamas, that no, she can’t mute the porn video that is sent to her. She also doesn’t know what’s going on in her new friend’s underpants when he tells her he’s put on weight.
Fake child profiles
Satie is the companion of Shiva (another pseudonym), who founded Team Eunomie in December 2019. With around forty members (most of them women), this association has set itself the task of confusing online pedophile criminals by creating fake child profiles. “We are neither white knights nor vigilantes, but ordinary citizens who collaborate with the authorities to stop this scourge”, explains Shiva, a worker at the factory. He himself was the victim of rape when he was a child. At the time, no one believed him.
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