The Grooming Files

Category: Real Life Stories

  • Part 3: Psychological Profile – Eddie B

    © By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files 1. Surface Presentation Eddie positions himself as cooperative and even helpful: He frames himself as both victim (“I am not attracted to children… there [are] just thoughts I get”) and ally (“These…

    Part 3: Psychological Profile – Eddie B

  • 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 Grooming Files — A Chapter Closes, The Work Lives On

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial When I started The Grooming Files in March 2025, I thought I was starting a blog.In reality, I was building a weapon. It began with one mission, drag the early-internet grooming era into the…

    The Grooming Files — A Chapter Closes, The Work Lives On

  • Two Years in the Forge: Closing the False Economy

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial I didn’t just survive the last two years. I walked through fire, fed it every illusion I had left, and came out with steel in my spine. I wanted more. Not the kind of…

    Two Years in the Forge: Closing the False Economy

  • The Becoming

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series No one crowns you here. No finish line. No angels singing. No perfect sunrise to mark the shift. One day, you just notice: You didn’t apologise for existing. You…

    The Becoming

  • The Aftershock

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series No one talks about what happens after the breakthrough. Not in real terms. Not in the mess. Everyone’s quick to talk about transformation, the high, the moment you see…

    The Aftershock

  • 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

  • Protest Outside HMP Swansea Highlights Prison Failings as Former Inmates Speak Out

    Saturday 12th July 2025 – ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial Campaigners gathered outside HMP Swansea on Saturday to raise awareness of systemic failings inside Welsh prisons, amid mounting concerns over deaths in custody, staff misconduct, and widespread drug abuse.…

    Protest Outside HMP Swansea Highlights Prison Failings as Former Inmates Speak Out

  • Part 7: The Situational Offender — He Wouldn’t Normally… Until He Did

    ©️ By Sophie Lewis | @sophielewiseditorial He’d never fantasised about children.He wasn’t a known predator.He didn’t plan anything in advance. But the child was there. Alone.The door was shut.Nobody was watching. And in that moment — he made a choice.…

    Part 7: The Situational Offender — He Wouldn’t Normally… Until He Did

  • 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

  • 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 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 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