Author: Sophie Editorial

  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series No one crowns you here. No finish line. No angels singing. No perfect sunrise to mark the shift. One day, you just notice: You didn’t apologise for existing. You…

    The Becoming
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series You think you’re healing. You feel lighter. Stronger. The storm passed, the ground’s still, your soul’s been through hell and back, and lived. But then it comes. Not as…

    The Reckoning
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series No one talks about what happens after the breakthrough. Not in real terms. Not in the mess. Everyone’s quick to talk about transformation, the high, the moment you see…

    The Aftershock
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series Before I ever thought of healing, I was just trying to get through the day. Not with purpose. Not with mindfulness. Just survival. My body was functioning, but my…

    The Trip That Broke Me (And Put Me Back Together)
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series There’s a part of healing no one warns you about, the part where the sadness burns off, and underneath it, there’s rage. Not irritation. Not restlessness. Rage. The kind…

    The Rage No One Talks About
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series This isn’t about love and light. This isn’t some soft-lit reel with ambient music and the word ‘healing’ in cursive. This is for the ones crawling through it. The…

    To the Ones Healing in the Dark
  • A Statement from Sophie Lewis on Predator Exposure, Accountability Work, and Public Misinformation Why I’m Writing This This statement is not a defence.It’s not an apology.It’s a record, one that should have been written sooner. In the past year, I’ve…

    On Record
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial We were the first kids online. Dial-up tones. MSN Messenger. Webcams balanced on bulky monitors. No rules. No warnings. No one watching. And the predators? They found us before our parents…

    The Generation the Internet Groomed — And the System Forgot
  • Saturday 12th July 2025 – ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial Campaigners gathered outside HMP Swansea on Saturday to raise awareness of systemic failings inside Welsh prisons, amid mounting concerns over deaths in custody, staff misconduct, and widespread drug abuse.…

    Protest Outside HMP Swansea Highlights Prison Failings as Former Inmates Speak Out
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He’s never met her.Never touched her.Never left his room. But he knows her name, her school, her secrets, her fears.And he’s got the photos to prove it. This is the Cyber Predator — the…

    Part 12: The Cyber Predator — When Distance Doesn’t Diminish the Damage
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He didn’t abuse because he lost control.He did it to hurt someone else. This is the Vindictive Offender — the predator who uses sexual abuse as a weapon of revenge, punishment, or emotional destruction.He…

    Part 11: The Vindictive Offender — When Abuse Becomes Revenge
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He doesn’t hide in shame.He doesn’t spiral with guilt.He speaks with conviction. “Children can consent.”“It’s love, not abuse.”“The system’s wrong — not me.” This is the Ideological Predator — the most dangerous kind of…

    Part 10: The Ideological Predator — When Abuse Is Framed as Belief
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He didn’t touch anyone.He didn’t send the message.He didn’t commit the crime. But he saw the signs.He heard the disclosures.He knew what was happening. And he did nothing. This is the Bystander-Predator — the…

    Part 9: The Bystander-Predator — When Silence Protects the Abuser
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He’s not sneaking through back doors.He’s walking straight in with a lanyard and a DBS certificate. He’s a foster carer.A social worker.A teacher.A youth pastor.A residential home worker.A volunteer in “safeguarding.”A police officer leading…

    Part 8: The Predator-By-Design — When the Role Is the Strategy
  • ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He’d never fantasised about children.He wasn’t a known predator.He didn’t plan anything in advance. But the child was there. Alone.The door was shut.Nobody was watching. And in that moment — he made a choice.…

    Part 7: The Situational Offender — He Wouldn’t Normally… Until He Did