a virtual child is being used as bait, as an online operation. now it targets potential cybersex customers and pedophiles. a children s rights group says that more than 20,000 predators have approached this virtual girl. now becky anderson introduces us to how this works. my name is sweetie. i m ten years old. i live in the philippines. every day i have to sit in front of the web cam and talk to men. when she logs online to internet chat rooms, sweetie is bombarded by requests. the men ask me to take off my clothes. they undress. men from all over the world, three, four, five times her age ask her to perform sexual acts in front of a web cam. as soon as i go online, they
so, we kept interviewing her and trying to find out where jessi was. and finally, she broke down and started crying and admitted, i m jessi. i ve been using my daughter s name on the internet, using my daughter s name on the internet. oh, my god, there it was. the truth, the unimaginable truth. jessi, the real jessi, never wrote a single word to montgomery or me. it was her mother. mary shieler, who had been sending out jessi s pictures. and lingerie. having cybersex online. the mother using her own beautiful daughter as bait. and look what happened. i think she enjoyed as much as he enjoyed living this fantasy life through the
convenient definitions in the pre-facebook era. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. ms. lewinsky. reporter: the new rules according to experts, physical contact is no longer required for vow breaking. if you are using the sexting to keep a secret from another person, then, yes, it is cheating. reporter: indeed, the question of whether sexting can be cheating provokes passion on line. heavy on the absolutely and the hell yeses. we put the question on our facebook page and had hundreds of responses in the first hour. most voted for cheating. therapists and divorce lawyers say techno-straying is booming and has a pull for men like weiner. high-powered men who sext do it because of power. they want the reassurance that they re desirable, powerful, and sexually attractive, and that s the motivation. reporter: the ultimate judge of course of this breach is weiner s wife, huma abedin.