‘I still see the girl’s hair band & Mickey Mouse pyjamas..i can’t get that image out of my head’ Grandmother tells of sick Call for urgent law change footage sent to intimidate her to tackle evil online predators

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photo of the child in her pyjamas before progressing to asking for a kiss and whether she has breasts yet or not. She replies: “Not yet I’m only 11.” He then asks if he can “feel where they are”, adding: “Would you mind, or I could put my hand down your jeans?” CPA founder Louise (not her real name) says she fears the filth they uncover is just the tip of the iceberg because there are no laws to deal with it. She adds: “Some of the chat logs I can’t even read out, they’re too graphic. We hand over every single little bit of evidence that we have. Gardai have said what we’ve handed them is gold, only the legislation isn’t there to charge them. We are taking the law into our own hands but if we don’t do this it means there are children in danger.

“I think there’s thousands upon thousands of predators in the Republic of Ireland because it’s a safe haven for them.

“There’s no laws there and they think they’re going to get away with it. Unwanted sexual exploitation of children is happening in Ireland, frequently.”

Another decoy Nellie (not her real name) reveals that playing the role of a naive young child has taken over her life.

She adds: “The phone is hopping. It never stops. It’s message after message after message. This doesn’t stop.” While on camera she receives one text asking for a photo. She says: “The worry is that when he’s not talking to me he’s actually talking to a real child and that is what we’re terrified of.”

The documentary also hears from a paedophile hunter based in Leeds who snared former RTE producer Kieran Creaven.

The 55-year-old was released from jail in January after receiving an 18-month term for grooming. He had travelled to England to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. The UK paedophile