THE GROOMING FILES | INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS ©️ Sophie Lewis | Journalist | The Grooming Files Why Power Corrupts And Why Elite Abuse Is Structural, Not Accidental A Structural Analysis of Power-Dominant Offending and Systemic Safeguarding Failure IMPORTANT NOTE: This essay…

©️ Sophie Lewis · The Grooming Files Birthday Theatre They arrested Prince Andrew on his 66th birthday. Not a week before. Not quietly in the night. On the birthday. And you’re supposed to believe that’s coincidence. You’re supposed to feel…

©️ Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files Why the Public Spectacle is a Trap The amount of people I’ve seen talking about the Epstein files lately is staggering. But what concerns me more is what it is doing to them.…

©️ Sophie Lewis|The Grooming Files The Safeguarding Theatre Nobody Wants to Talk About We’ve been trained to look for monsters in the shadows. Hooded figures. Dark alleys. Secret networks. Encrypted chats. The idea that predators hide is comforting, because it…

©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files Hypersexuality doesn’t feel sexual. It feels like survival with a heartbeat. From the outside, people see confidence, appetite, liberation. From the inside, it’s urgency masquerading as desire. A pressure valve. A way…

©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files Why Some Predators Turn to Dommes and What That Says About a System That’s Already Failed There’s a pattern most people don’t want to talk about. Not because it’s rare.But because it’s…

©️ By Sophie LewisTrauma-Informed Systems Analyst | Creator, Human Chart Cycle Theory I Track Collective Nervous System Responses Across Markets and Institutions The Epstein Disclosures Follow the Pattern Exactly Applying Human Chart Cycle Theory to understand why scandal saturation serves…

©️ Sophie Lewis|The Grooming Files Every few months, another one hits the headlines. Youth pastor arrested. Assistant minister charged. Worship leader convicted. And every time, the same shocked responses: “He seemed so godly.” “The children loved him.” “He was so…

©️ Sophie Lewis|The Grooming Files We’ve been sold a lie. The lie that grooming only happens to “vulnerable” children. That it’s about dark alleyways and suspicious strangers. That once kids hit their teens, they’re “old enough to know better.” Bollocks.…

©️ Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files In the Internet Watch Foundation’s January to October reporting window, there were five reported cases of AI generated child sexual abuse material depicting infants aged 0 to 2 years old in 2024. In…

©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files Each time a major safeguarding scandal erupts, the response follows a familiar script. A review is commissioned.A failure is acknowledged.A new body is proposed. The latest response is the creation of a…

©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files We keep telling ourselves these are different scandals. Grooming gangs in northern towns.Teachers abusing pupils in schools.Children harmed in care homes.Online exploitation spiralling unchecked. Different settings.Different headlines.Different inquiries. But scratch beneath the…

©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files When grooming gang trials end, the public narrative reaches its conclusion. Charges brought.Convictions secured.Sentences handed down. Closure. Except that for the victims, this is often where the real damage begins. Justice Has…

©️ Sophie Lewis| The Grooming Files People don’t like the phrase child prostitution. It’s confronting.It refuses euphemism.It doesn’t allow distance. So instead, softer language is used. At risk.Sexually active.Exchanging sex.Making unsafe choices. But none of those phrases tell the truth.…

©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files Long before grooming gang cases reached courtrooms, another decision had already been made. Not by offenders, but by the institutions meant to protect children. The decision was this..that the girls being abused…