The Grooming Files

Tag: grooming awareness

  • 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 2: Inside the Mind of Eddie B

    © By Sophie Lewis | NUJ | Journalist | The Grooming Files A Case Study in Exposure-Seeking Behaviour When Eddie B first contacted me, it wasn’t to confess or apologise. It was to “expose others.” He pointed to online spaces…

    Part 2: Inside the Mind of 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

  • Fairgrounds Are Crawling With Predators — I Saw It With My Own Eyes

    By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial He Licked  His Lips While Watching A LITTLE GIRL — and He Was Operating The Fucking Ride Barry Island.A warm summer day.Families lined up, kids squealing with joy, adults sipping drinks…

    Fairgrounds Are Crawling With Predators — I Saw It With My Own Eyes

  • On Record

    A Statement from Sophie Lewis on Predator Exposure, Accountability Work, and Public Misinformation Why I’m Writing This This statement is not a defence.It’s not an apology.It’s a record, one that should have been written sooner. In the past year, I’ve…

    On Record

  • 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

  • The System Always Knew – And Still Did Nothing

    Part 5 of The Record They Buried – And the Woman Who Survived It You don’t end up with over 1,000 pages of care records by mistake. That kind of trail only exists when someone has cried out for help…

    The System Always Knew – And Still Did Nothing

  • The Grandmother Who Can’t Save Him

    Part 4 of The Record They Buried – And the Woman Who Survived It Kerry survived the kind of childhood that should have made her safety a lifelong priority. She was beaten, sexually abused, neglected, and lied about while social…

    The Grandmother Who Can’t Save Him

  • The Words They Never Asked For – Kerry’s Survivor Words

    Part 3 of The Record They Buried – And the Woman Who Survived It They wrote about her but never asked her. They documented her pain but never listened to it. They filled over 1,000 pages and still missed the…

    The Words They Never Asked For – Kerry’s Survivor Words

  • The Paper Trail – What the Files Reveal

    Part 2 of The Record They Buried – And the Woman Who Survived It “Only marginally looked after.”“Would be better in care.”“Emotionally deprived.”“Clothes dirty. Hair matted. No stimulation at home.”“She was very frightened when I spoke to her.”“Pam said she…

    The Paper Trail – What the Files Reveal

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • “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 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