SWEDEN Pedo Hunting is a modern internet trend. It is a decentralised group of people who lure paedophiles on fake accounts of children under 15 to meet in person. Once the paedophile arrives at the arranged location, they are physically assaulted and humiliated. Videos of these events are then uploaded to the internet to serve as a warning to other paedophiles. Pedo Hunting has spread to most European countries, but also to some non-European countries.
Although the people who claim to be part of the Pedo Hunting group consider themselves to be modern-day superheroes who take the law into their own hands, their actions are illegal. The true motive for most of them is probably a simple desire for violence. They pick on pefodiles because they are socially acceptable victims and they can disguise it as a good deed.