When Alice first experienced Omegle, it was already becoming notorious as a wild corner of the internet.
"Me and my friends went on Omegle at a slumber party," she says. "Everyone at school knew about it. But obviously no-one knew what the dangers were."
Today the website has around 73 million visitors a month, according to analysts at website watchers Semrush, mostly from India, the US, the UK, Mexico and Australia. For some teenagers it is a rite of passage to be matched with a stranger in a live video chat where anything could happen.
After the sleepover Alice logged on to Omegle alone, and that's when she was matched with Canadian paedophile Ryan Fordyce.
She was struggling at the time with early teenage anxieties and Fordyce made her feel better. During that first video chat he persuaded her to share personal messaging details.
"He was able to manipulate me immediately," she says. "Very quickly I was being forced to do things that a child should not have to do."
Once he had coerced Alice into sending intimate images, Fordyce convinced her that she was complicit in making and sharing child sexual abuse material. Fearing arrest, she kept everything secret from her family and friends.
"I spent a huge chunk of my childhood at his beck and call. Every day being at the will of someone else who had the worst of intentions for children."
This continued for three years, until finally Fordyce seemed to lose interest and communication petered out.
The Internet Watch Foundation has also tried to talk to Mr Brooks about changes to his site. The charity, which removes child sex abuse content from the internet, told the BBC its analysts deal with around 20 Omegle videos a week.
Mr Brooks did send the BBC a statement. In it he said users of Omegle were "solely responsible for their behaviour" while using his website. He added that Omegle took the safety of users extremely seriously, with moderation by artificial intelligence and human moderators, and had helped law enforcement and organisations working to stop the online exploitation of children.
It is true that child abusers have been convicted after Omegle handed over their IP addresses to police.
Meanwhile, Mr Brooks has made a small change to his website. Weeks after he was notified of Alice's legal action a box appeared on Omegle that users have to tick, to state that they are over 18, before they can enter.
But Alice's legal team says this is "not sufficient".
Alice herself says she would like to see Omegle closed down.
"I don't think it carries enough benefits to destroy children's lives," she says.
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