Sex predator terrorized Asian teens in Indianapolis

31-year-old Danny Cherry used Facebook to solicit sexual favors from minors



This is some creepy, disturbing news out of Indianapolis, where an online sex predator faces felony charges for terrorizing several teenagers -- all Asian boys -- with threats, harassment and stalking that turned into violence.

Man who harassed Indianapolis teens a rare sex predator, police say

According to police, 31-year-old Danny Cherry is accused in multiple instances of targeting young members of the Chin community, an ethnic minority from Burma with a large presence in the Indianapolis area. It began on Facebook, where Cherry befriended boys by posing as an Asian teen, then began sending sexually explicit and threatening messages and attempting to solicit sexual favors from minors.

But it didn't stop there. It escalated. In several cases, Cherry is accused of stalking and showing up at the homes of his victims. Earlier this year, he shot a boy's father in the face:

Online sex predators caught in the act by virtual "child"

Computer-generated "Sweetie" created to lure web cam sex tourists.



This is really unsettling... Meet Sweetie, a 10-year-old girl from the Philippines who tracked down and identified 1,000 pedophiles. Except she isn't real -- she's a computer-generated avatar used as bait to lure online sex predators who target children: Meet 'Sweetie,' a virtual girl created to target child predators.

"Sweetie" was created by the Dutch children's rights organization Terre des Hommes as part of a campaign to end "web cam sex tourism," where men go online to pay children from developing countries to perform sex acts on camera. According to the charity, 20,000 men contacted Sweetie within the first 10 weeks. Watch this video about the investigation: