The Grooming Files

Category: Awareness

  • The Cold Girl – A Childhood Not Worth Protecting

    Part 1 of “The Record They Buried — And the Woman Who Survived It” There is a silence more violent than shouting.A neglect more painful than bruises.A system that doesn’t break — it erases. This is the story of Catherine…

    The Cold Girl – A Childhood Not Worth Protecting

  • Hijacked: How Grooming Survivors Were Exploited by a Political Circus

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial Let’s cut through the bullshit. For years now, a very specific narrative has been pushed around grooming gangs in the UK — one that focuses almost exclusively on Asian or…

    Hijacked: How Grooming Survivors Were Exploited by a Political Circus

  • What If We Treated Grooming Like Terrorism?

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial A brutal comparison the system doesn’t want you to make If a man was found online trying to radicalise a 12-year-old into violence, the state would respond with force: But…

    What If We Treated Grooming Like Terrorism?

  • Inside the Psychology of Grooming’s Lingering Grip

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial The Voice That Stayed After the Predator Left They say abuse ends when the abuser leaves. But for many survivors of grooming, the exit is only the beginning. The real…

    Inside the Psychology of Grooming’s Lingering Grip

  • THE DIGITAL FLASHER – STEVEN BLUNDELL

    Unsolicited Dick Pics, Eyeball Assaults, and Why I’m Now Charging a Trauma Fee There’s something truly magical about waking up, sipping your morning tea, opening your inbox — and being visually assaulted by a complete stranger’s meat flute. Another day,…

    THE DIGITAL FLASHER – STEVEN BLUNDELL

  • BREAKING: Death in Custody at HMP Swansea Confirmed

    © @sophielewiseditorial | The Grooming Files | By Sophie Lewis The death of a prisoner, Lee Draper at HMP Swansea has been officially confirmed by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO). The incident occurred on Wednesday 19 June 2025. Until…

    BREAKING: Death in Custody at HMP Swansea Confirmed

  • “Too Late to Be Worthy” — How Society Grooms Children Into Rushing Sex

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial “You haven’t done it yet?”“Still a virgin?”“At your age?” They don’t need to say anything more.The shame has already landed. We talk a lot about predators.We talk about rape, grooming,…

    “Too Late to Be Worthy” — How Society Grooms Children Into Rushing Sex

  • The Loudest Silence I’ve Ever Heard

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial What Happens When You Expose a Predator — and Nobody Listens I didn’t expect applause.But I didn’t expect silence either. Not after this. Two predators.Both came forward.Both admitted they were…

    The Loudest Silence I’ve Ever Heard

  • Part 4 – What Predators Won’t Tell You — And What We Must Learn From This

    ©️ An investigative series by Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial “I have now sat face to face — and screen to screen — with predators who know exactly what they are, and who know the system will…

    Part 4 – What Predators Won’t Tell You — And What We Must Learn From This

  • Part 3 – A System Not Built to Stop Them: The Exposure Groups Aren’t Failing — But the System Is

    ©️ An investigative series by Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial “Twice now, predators have come to me voluntarily — begging to be stopped. We have a systems failure. And it is happening right now.” It should not…

    Part 3 – A System Not Built to Stop Them: The Exposure Groups Aren’t Failing — But the System Is

  • Part 2 – Inside the Spiral: Why Predators Are Now Seeking Their Own Exposure

    An investigative series ©️ by Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial “Another predator came to me. Begging to be exposed. It’s happening again — and it is not an accident.” When the first predator came to me —…

    Part 2 – Inside the Spiral: Why Predators Are Now Seeking Their Own Exposure

  • Part 1 – Inside the Mind of a Predator: Why They Are Now Turning to Journalists for Exposure

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial “Predators Are Slipping Through the Cracks — And They Are Coming to Me to Be Exposed.”A survivor-led investigative series documenting a new phase of systemic failure — when predators beg…

    Part 1 – Inside the Mind of a Predator: Why They Are Now Turning to Journalists for Exposure

  • The Only Thing Smaller Than Your Dick Is Your Understanding of Consent

    I Opened My Inbox—and Found His Dick. Again. I wasn’t scrolling Pornhub. I wasn’t sexting. I was opening a standard Facebook message — only to be greeted by his dick. Again. Same man. Same unasked-for limp gladiator. But this time?…

    The Only Thing Smaller Than Your Dick Is Your Understanding of Consent

  • Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 6

    The Pushback — Tearing Down the Pipeline “It’s too big to stop.”They always say that — right before we do. We’ve traced the pipeline:Sexualised media.Pornified minds.Grooming in classrooms.A corporate machine profiting from the wreckage. We’ve heard the voices:Survivors who never…

    Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 6

  • Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 5

    Survivors Speak — The Real Cost of a Sexualised Childhood “I thought it was normal.”“I thought it was love.”“I didn’t know I was being groomed.”We hear this again and again. And every time we ignore the warning, more children are…

    Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 5