The Grooming Files

Category: predator awareness

  • Part 1: Eddie B — The Raw Interview

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files Predator under CPS investigation! Sophie: Can I send you some questions about you please?Eddie: Sure. Q1. Why did you reach out to me — what made you pick me?Eddie: I watched one…

    Part 1: Eddie B — The Raw Interview

  • The Generation the Internet Groomed — And the System Forgot

    ©️ 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

  • Part 12: The Cyber Predator — When Distance Doesn’t Diminish the Damage

    ©️ 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

  • Part 11: The Vindictive Offender — When Abuse Becomes Revenge

    ©️ 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

  • Part 10: The Ideological Predator — When Abuse Is Framed as Belief

    ©️ 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

  • Part 9: The Bystander-Predator — When Silence Protects the Abuser

    ©️ 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

  • Part 5: The Networker — The Predator Who Builds a World of Harm

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He doesn’t act alone. He doesn’t have to. The Networker predator isn’t just abusing — he’s collaborating. Trading. Recruiting. Sharing techniques. He operates like a businessman, a trafficker, a strategist. And sometimes, like a…

    Part 5: The Networker — The Predator Who Builds a World of Harm

  • Part 4: The Fixated — When Obsession Replaces Reality

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He wasn’t confused. He was certain. Certain she wanted him. Certain they had a “connection.” Certain it was fate — even if she was 13, even if she blocked him, even if she said…

    Part 4: The Fixated — When Obsession Replaces Reality

  • Part 3: The Sadist — He Doesn’t Want Sex. He Wants to Watch You Break.

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He didn’t just hurt her.He recorded it.Watched it back.Sent it to others. And then he blamed her for bleeding. This is the Sadist — the predator who thrives not on pleasure, but on suffering.…

    Part 3: The Sadist — He Doesn’t Want Sex. He Wants to Watch You Break.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This Is a Breeding Ground — And We Need to Stop It NOW

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial Before the series drops — you need to understand why I’m doing this. And why I will not stop. I am writing this because I have seen what most of…

    This Is a Breeding Ground — And We Need to Stop It NOW

  • Blunt Force Justice? Why Mandatory Chemical Castration Won’t Solve Sexual Violence

    Castration as Cure? As an investigative journalist who’s spent some time covering grooming networks and the state’s repeated failures to protect children, I’ve seen this pattern too many times: the headlines promise a hardline fix, but the deeper problems stay…

    Blunt Force Justice? Why Mandatory Chemical Castration Won’t Solve Sexual Violence

  • What Real Prevention Actually Looks Like

    © 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