
She had to rely on weeks’ worth of conversations to get to know their real names, their address, their profession, and all that she could use to identify and target them. Danielle used fake IDs to chat with men on the Internet, who, in turn, used fake IDs. Now to the question of why she was arrested. Later, however, it is revealed that she had been working all alone. Throughout the interrogation, we see the cops trying to get her to give up the names of other members of her online organization, and she makes it look like she is too loyal to give them up. She started Pesticide for this purpose, but it was never joined by anyone else. To cope with this, or to tell herself that she was in fact a good mother, she decided to go on this crusade where she would make the world a better place for children by weeding out pedophiles. In fact, around that time, Social Services had taken away the custody of her children because she was found unfit to raise them. What really happened here is this: the story that Danielle gave about her daughter’s school and the teacher wasn’t quite true.

Is it right to take the law into your hands, and how far should one be allowed to go with this freedom? Danielle’s story serves as an eye-opener that makes us wonder about a lot of things, which is what makes this episode such an excellent watch. The Ending: Who’s the culprit?įocusing on the theme of vigilantism and how unchecked actions can lead to terrible chaos in someone’s life, this episode of ‘Criminal: UK’ poses a very moral and very legal question in front of the audience. She claims that her claims of Simmons being a pedophile are correct, but the cops don’t believe so. It is considered an offense, which is why Danielle has been arrested. The overall gist is that when a person makes a false accusation against someone and the accused suffers because of it, the accuser’s actions are held criminal. She is charged with making improper communication online. One of their victims is a man named Andrew Simmons, and she is brought in for questioning regarding his case. In the past couple of years or so, Danielle and other members of Pesticide have exposed a number of pedophiles. After chatting with them for some time and collecting enough evidence, she mails everything to their employer and their family, exposing them to everyone.

Now, she poses as a fourteen-year-old girl on chat forums and waits for some pedophile to approach her.

She decided to do something about it and that’s when she came up with Pesticide. This is when Danielle started to wonder if there were others like this teacher, pedophiles who were allowed to go about their business like normal people, endangering the lives of the children around them. She decided to expose his secret to his new employers, and he was fired again. Later, she discovered that the same man had received a job in a private school. Dunne had started it a few years back when she discovered that one of the teachers in her daughter’s school had been fired for the possession of child pornography. Danielle Dunne is brought in for questioning regarding the actions of her online vigilante community, Pesticide.
