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Once this information was gathered, the chat with Sweetie would be shut down, and the information was given to the local police or <a href="/wiki/Interpol" title="Interpol">Interpol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After receiving a letter from the United Nations, the team of the advertising agency Lemz admitted that they were behind this initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-bandt_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bandt-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strategy director of Lemz <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_Woerde&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Woerde (page does not exist)">Mark Woerde</a> gave one public interview to the Dutch TV show <i><a href="/wiki/RTL_Late_Night" title="RTL Late Night">RTL Late Night</a></i> to explain the intervention and to make clear, for security reasons, that they were no longer involved in Terre des hommes, Sweetie or police activities.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Outcome">Outcome</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweetie_(internet_avatar)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Outcome"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the ten weeks of operation, Sweetie was contacted by more than 20,000 users from 71 countries.<sup id="cite_ref-Verge_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Verge-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Terre des hommes identified 1,000 suspected predators, and passed their names, IP addresses, and social media accounts on to <a href="/wiki/Interpol" title="Interpol">Interpol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBC_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first arrest resulting from Sweetie-gleaned information occurred in <a href="/wiki/Brisbane,_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Brisbane, Australia">Brisbane, Australia</a>, in February 2014;<sup id="cite_ref-TheAge_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheAge-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, Troels Ørting Jørgensen of the <a href="/wiki/European_Cybercrime_Centre" title="European Cybercrime Centre">European Cybercrime Centre</a> has expressed concerns that judges may consider Sweetie to have been <a href="/wiki/Entrapment" title="Entrapment">entrapment</a>, and thereby rule <a href="/wiki/Admissible_evidence" title="Admissible evidence">inadmissible</a> any data ultimately sourced to Sweetie.<sup id="cite_ref-TheAge_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheAge-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sweetie led to the arrest of 46 people in Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-Verge_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Verge-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, an Australian man became the first person to be convicted as a result of the sting operation.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sweetie has been retired, and "will not be used again".<sup id="cite_ref-Ibtimes_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ibtimes-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading 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