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Article: Police hook pedophiles on Web in 5 seconds Child Exploitation Unit tracks criminals via computer.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2000
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It doesn't take much time for Lake County Sheriff's detective Rick White to find a possible pedophile on the World Wide Web.
Less than five seconds, in fact.
That's how long White is in an Internet chat room before he receives a message from another computer user who claims to be an aroused 27-year-old woman.
"It's probably a 40-year-old guy," White says as he types a response.
A few more seconds pass, and the stranger - who thinks White is a 15-year-old boy - asks the detective if he likes cybersex. As the conversation progresses, the stranger expresses a fondness for photos of 8-year-old girls and asks White if he has any.
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