Perverted-Justice

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Perverted-Justice

Founded 2002

Founder Xavier Von Erck

Website Perverted-Justice.com

Perverted Justice Foundation, Inc.,[1][2] more commonly known as Perverted-Justice (also known

as PeeJ), is an American organization based in California and Oregon which has investigated, identified,
and publicized the conduct of adults who have used chat rooms and other social media in order to solicit
online sexual conversations and in-person meetings with minors. Their website serves as an archive of
collected data on these investigations, which they make available in order to assist law enforcement and
the public in understanding the behavior and child grooming techniques of online hebephiles.
The activity of the Perverted-Justice organization has included online volunteers carrying out sting
operations by posing as children or teenagers (the age range portrayed by the decoys is usually 10–15)
on chat sites and waiting for adults to approach them. After obtaining the identifying information of the
adults who are seeking sexual contact with minors (the adult seeking the minor may offer their telephone
number or other details so that a meeting can be arranged), the organization would then pass the
information on to law enforcement.[3] Perverted-Justice's methods are controversial, and critics have
labeled these actions harassment and possibly legal entrapment.[4][5][6][7][8][9] The site additionally attracted
media attention, both laudatory and critical, as a result of their collaboration with Dateline NBC on a series
of televised sting operations called To Catch a Predator.
Perverted-Justice also operates a site that targets groups and individuals it identifies as being involved in
the pedophile activism community,[10] a site that provides information to abuse victims on their legal
recourse,[11] a site that gives advice to children and teenagers on dealing with grooming on the internet,
[12]
 and a site that targets organizations that Perverted-Justice believes allow pedophile activists to use
their services.[13] The foundation also offers free online training to law enforcement officers [14] and has an
intern program for college students.[15]
In late 2018 Perverted Justice announced that, as of the beginning of 2019, they would be formally ending
decoy operations. They also announced that they would be converting the official website to an archive of
past operations and collected data, and removing other site features such as the forums. The data they
propose to compile and make accessible on the website, including thousands of formerly unseen chat
logs, will be available for research purposes in order to assist anti-pedophile groups and law enforcement
with regard to understanding the behavior and techniques of online pedophiles. [16]

References[edit]

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impregnate ten more women up and down the West Coast. His name is garbage."
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