Stinson Hunter: “I might have to stop stings”

“Self-styled paedophile hunter says he may stop ‘stings’ after copycat vigilante is arrested on suspicion of blackmail.”

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Vigilante mob attack suspected paedophiles after luring them to meetings by posing as young girls online

“Police are hunting a violent band of vigilantes who are using the internet to tempt suspected paedophiles into bogus liaisons with under-age girls – then beating then up.” (Cops arrest the victims.)

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Hunter ‘hurt’ by Nuneaton charity donation snub

“Nuneaton’s paedophile hunter has been left hurt by a hometown good cause which has snubbed his charitable donation.”

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Calls for new child grooming law to ban online vigilante ‘paedophile hunters’

Only police should be able to operate stings in RoI.

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How far should we go to stop online paedophiles?

Article largely approving of amateur stings.

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Civil liberties advocate opposes use of online avatars to catch sex offenders

“The whole issue of child protection and paedophilia has in the last 15 years moved from dealing with an actual problem to a really worrying grey area of creating an artificial situation and then criminalising people for acting.”

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Webcam sex with fake girl Sweetie leads to sentence

“A man in Australia is believed to be the first to have been convicted as the result of an undercover sting in which charity workers posed online as a 10-year-old Filipina.”

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Vigilante ‘example to authorities’

Jim Gamble approves of Stinson Hunter’s sting tactics but thinks law enforcement should be doing it.

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Vigilante Stinson Hunter ‘has got people talking’ says expert

Birmingham City University criminologist approves.

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Men who used gay website Grindr to ensnare would-be paedophiles jailed for four years each

“Two men who used a gay website to ensnare would-be paedophiles and blackmail them have been jailed for four years each.”

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