TikTok removes Australian account purporting to hunt paedophiles

NSW police warn people should report alleged predatory behaviour, not attempt to take law into their own hands

Social networking platform TikTok has removed an Australian account purporting to lure alleged paedophiles to meetings and then capture their confrontation on film, as the NSW police warn people not to take the law into their own hands.

In what appears to be a new form of the trend of online accounts hunting child sex abusers, the account, which before being taken down had thousands of views and likes, claimed to have confronted alleged paedophiles the account said came to "meet an underage kid", seemingly lured from a dating app. The men appearing in the six short videos were often attempting to flee, or were fighting back against the person filming them.