The Grooming Files Daddy’s Little Secret
How Facebook Is Hosting a Grooming Pipeline in Plain Sight The Grooming Files | Investigative Report | April 2026Sophie Lewis | NUJ Member | Investigative Journalist | The Grooming…
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The Grooming Files Eddie B Update: 24 Months Under Investigation — The NFA That Raises More Questions Than Answers
© By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files About This ResearchSophie Lewis is a final-year BA (Hons) Social Sciences student specialising in criminology, forensic psychology, and couns…
The Grooming Files Not All Predators Are the Same — And We Need to Talk About It
©️ Opinion Piece – By Sophie Lewis We’re getting some predator stings wrong and the cost could be children’s safety. First, respect where it’s due: I take my hat off to the p…
The Grooming Files 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 m…
The Grooming Files The Trip That Broke Me (And Put Me Back Together)
©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series Before I ever thought of healing, I was just trying to get through the day. Not with purpose. Not with mindfulness. Just…
The Grooming Files The Rage No One Talks About
©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series There’s a part of healing no one warns you about, the part where the sadness burns off, and underneath it, there’s rage.…
The Grooming Files To the Ones Healing in the Dark
©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | Shadowborn Series This isn’t about love and light. This isn’t some soft-lit reel with ambient music and the word ‘healing’ in …
The Grooming Files 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 r…
The Grooming Files 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 warnin…
The Grooming Files Inside the Psychology of Grooming’s Lingering Grip
©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial The Voice That Stayed After the Predator Left They say abuse ends when the abuser leaves. But for many survivors of …
The Grooming Files 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 s…
The Grooming Files 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 try…