Category: Awareness

  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial Who Profits From The Normalisation? “If you want to know what controls the world, look at what you’re not allowed to criticise.”And if you want to know why children are…

    Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 4
  • Public interest journalism. All individuals are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise. This article is based on direct testimony, recorded material, and verified public statements. When does telling the truth become a crime? That’s the question being asked this week after…

    When Telling the Truth Risks Arrest: A Campaigner’s Story
  • By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial PART 3: When Education Becomes Indoctrination “We just want them to be educated.”But who’s deciding what that education looks like?And who profits from it? In theory, schools should be the firewall…

    Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – PART 3
  • By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial PART 2: Pornified Minds — What Kids Are Really Being Exposed To “We didn’t teach them this.”No — but porn did. They say childhood is sacred.But what happens when a child’s…

    Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 2
  • By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial PART 1: The New Normal — Sexualising Children in Plain Sight “She’s just dancing.”“They’re just clothes.”“You’re overreacting.” We’ve heard it all before. But let’s be clear: if you need to defend…

    Stolen Innocence: How Society Sexualises Our Children
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial Moving beyond awareness into action — a survivor-led guide to protecting children before harm happens. Awareness Isn’t Enough Anymore We’ve raised awareness. We’ve had campaigns. We’ve worn the ribbons. But…

    What Real Prevention Actually Looks Like
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial An unflinching look at how the justice system fails child sexual abuse survivors and why ‘not enough evidence’ is a sentence in itself. When “Innocent Until Proven Guilty” Leaves Survivors…

    The Proof Problem: Why So Few Cases Ever Reach Court
  • © By Sophie Lewis | HMP Prisons Justice Group | @sophielewiseditorial More serious allegations have emerged from inside HMP Parc, where a prisoner is reported to have been the victim of a boiling water attack involving sugar and then allegedly…

    BOILED ALIVE AND LEFT TO WAIT: FRESH ALLEGATION OF MEDICAL NEGLECT AT HMP PARC
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial Why child sexual abuse happens in the places we least expect — and how appearances can deceive us all. The Dangerous Comfort of Assumptions There’s a quiet lie that floats…

    “Good” Homes Aren’t Always Safe: Respectability Isn’t Protection
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial An honest look at what happens when adults who were never protected grow up to become protectors. They Never Got What They Now Have to Give There’s a quiet group…

    Survivors Raising Children: Breaking the Cycle of Silence
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial A deep dive into one of the most silenced and misunderstood forms of child sexual abuse. Nobody Wants to Talk About This One Out of all the forms of child…

    When Children Harm Children: The Hidden Reality of Sibling and Peer-on-Peer Abuse
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial Why society still refuses to believe that women can sexually abuse — and what it’s costing survivors. We Don’t Want to Believe It There’s a collective discomfort when the topic…

    The Silence Around Female Offenders
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial A survivor-led educational breakdown of the biggest myth fuelling child sexual abuse silence. We Like to Think We’d See It Ask the average person what a child abuser looks like,…

    Not Just Monsters: Why Most Abusers Aren’t Who You Think
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial You didn’t leave your name. You didn’t need to. Your words said everything. They carried the weight of a stolen childhood, the betrayal of someone meant to protect you, and…

    To the Survivor Who Just Wanted to Be Heard — I Heard You.
  • © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial A survivor-led educational breakdown of what society still avoids about child sexual abuse We say we want to protect children, but when it comes to the hard truths, society falls…

    What We’re Still Not Talking About