Pedo Hunter in Area

I think they are invaluable in protecting children these monsters should be named and shamed. It's not like they ever even get a jail sentence

I am deeply uneasy about adults pretending to be children and engaging in sexualised conversations with no membership of any law enforcement and appropriate therapy/safeguards. There is something very strange about people willing to do this. Not to mention the obvious risk of chasing fame/attention and monetisation of social media.

100%

There have been so many cases of mistaken identities. I wouldn't touch them with a shitty stick , leave the police to their jobs. Vigilante groups are not helpful

Because they have the same mentality. It is a distrust of authority/police/courts that lead to followers, they want to "sort it themselves"

They targeted a pediatrician in my area. Spray-painted pedo on the front of their house. Vigilantism never ends well.

The police already know about him! His name is Alex Cairnie. I don't know too much about him as when I hear his name I zone out but he's definitely been charged before.

Here's an old Reddit thread about him when he was roaming the streets in Glasgow..

https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/KYkKYl9vnU

This man is a racist clown. He used to walk the streets of my area at night time videoing the people living there and accusing them of horrendous crimes, with zero evidence. Then he opened up a coffee shop. Now he's doing this. He's desperate for attention.

I saw they caught someone near here by pretending to be a 12 year old old girl. Didn’t know anything about it until after.

It wouldn’t be something I’d do personally, but I’m very happy for the information. I have 2 convicted paedos in my family and we are NC with them. We had them come to our village and now I know where the paedo lives on the estate where my dc have some friends, so grateful to have that information.

Vigilantism is frightening!

Just remember they are using your community to raise their own profile. If they cared about catching anyone they wouldn’t be plastering their presence over social media for “likes”.

he has said he’s here ‘taking to lots of people’ and he’s made it clear he’s happy to talk to anyone who might have ‘info’ - so basically he is stirring up and listening to local gossip and I assume trying to get some names so he can ‘take action’

More likely it's to create more interest for himself so he can sell more drugs

As you can probably tell I just looked at the FB page, and let's just say his appearance was no surprise ...

Because police don't / wont't / can't do much anymore people will have to take the law into their own hands.
Where we live there are a lot of break ins, doorstep theft and drug dealing. If we know something is going on we will all chat on the group WhatsApp and anyone home will go a check... we had a situation with a woman trying to grab peoples phones so a few of the lads on the street went out and told her where to go... we know we are only moving the problem on - but what else is there!

Well it is nice to know wtf ppl are talking about isn't it? Mind you , a paediatric clinic was attacked a few years ago by some nutters.

Perhaps a new word is needed for the hard of thinking.

But where's the glory in that.
As you said some of ones caught have clearly got learning disabilities and obvious low mental age.

They’re vigilantes which goes against what I believe is important in a modern justice system.

I'm sure they sometimes do good work.

The risks are obvious though - no checks on who they are or what bias they hold, little come back if they make false accusations, and the incentive to do so due to the addictive nature of social media likes and the monetisation of their channels.

The ones I've heard about tend to operate online in 'sting' type operations where they pretend to be kids online- the guy you have sounds more worrying if he's just 'investigating' people- sounds like a recipe for accusing people because they're a bit odd and they sometimes sit in the park on their own, and there's kids in the park, and clearly 2 and 2 must make 5.

I'd pretty much guarantee some of them are child abusers hiding in plain sight too.

I swear every MN thread I’ve read about peadophiles (I’m probably spelling it wrong!) descends into a discussion or argument about the correct way to spell it, as if that’s the most important issue 🙄 who cares!

Exactly this