The Grooming Files

Category: Exposé

  • Part 1: The Opportunist — Predators of Convenience, Not Conscience

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial It didn’t start with grooming. It started with a silence. She was asleep. He was nearby. Maybe he was a friend of the family, a boyfriend, a trusted co-worker, or even a stranger at…

    Part 1: The Opportunist — Predators of Convenience, Not Conscience

  • The State Is the New Trafficker

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial And nobody dares call it what it is… They call it “safeguarding.”They call it “protection.”They call it “in the child’s best interest.” But when thousands of children are forcibly removed…

    The State Is the New Trafficker

  • 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?

  • The Predator Paradox: When Exposure Becomes the Behaviour

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | NUJ-accredited Journalist | The Grooming Files The Message That Shouldn’t Have Happened It didn’t start with a sting. It didn’t start with a victim. It started with a message no one should ever receive: “You…

    The Predator Paradox: When Exposure Becomes the Behaviour

  • When Predators Beg for Exposure — And the System Lets Them

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial In 2025, two men messaged me out of the blue. They weren’t groomers pretending to be something else.They weren’t trying to cover their tracks.They told me outright: “I’m a danger…

    When Predators Beg for Exposure — And the System Lets Them

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • Stolen Innocence – How Society Sexualises Our Children – Part 4

    © 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