Going Undercover As A Paedophile To Catch Child Traffickers

How To Catch A Pimp: With an estimated 100,000 children involved in prostitution in the Philippines, one Australian father has gone undercover, posing as a sex tourist to uncover a criminal underworld of pimps and victims. Subscribe to Journeyman here: As a devout Christian with tee-total parents, getting into character as a paedophile was always going to be a stretch for Tony Kirwan. “I was extremely uncomfortable when I first started doing this“, says Kirwan. Yet his distress at the world of sleaze and exploitation emboldened him to pose as its worst type of customer. After becoming aware of the scale of child trafficking in Thailand, he founded Destiny Rescue, a charity funded by donations and mostly staffed by volunteers. “I’ve got no specific skills in this other than I guess a heart of a dad“, he says. Now he is part of a motley crew with no background in law enforcement, whose assistance to und