It is now time to update and simplify our guidelines for coming into contact with the Godson Cult:
avoid introducing anyone under the age of 18yo to Chris or Clare Godson;
avoid introducing anyone who is vulnerable to the cult leadership;
do not book anyone under the age of 18yo into the gites or B&B operated by the cult in Benevent l’Abbaye;
do not leave any family members alone with the Godson Cult leadership;
avoid talking about your family to Chris & Clare Godson;
do not give information about younger members of family or their places of education;
do not leave any sensitive material about your family in your rooms if you are forced to stay in cult accommodation;
do not leave passports or valuables in your rooms;
secure all your room doors overnight;
make sure that you inform friends and family if you are forced to stay in Godson Cult operated gites or B&B in Benevent l’Abbaye (this applies to all ages);
make sure that family and friends are aware of your whereabouts after any stay with the Godsons; establish a routine time for a phone call to friends and family;
be prepared to report any alarming behaviour by the cult leadership to the Gendarmerie or Police;
resist threats or aggressive persuasion used by the cult leadership;
avoid contact with any of the “helpers” they are usually teen and underage girls recruited to compromise guests and make them vulnerable to blackmail;
if you are blackmailed by the cult leadership contact the Gendarmerie or Police in Gueret (also arielacohen99@gmail.com);
do not accept lifts or offers of assistance from the cult leadership; do not accept invitations to lunch or supper with the cult leadership;
do not offer any views on religion, bible study, do not start a discussion on religion with the Godson couple; do not accept for one minute that the Godsons were missionaries in the accepted sense, they operated child brothels in Thailand and Cambodia;
email arielacohen99@gmail.com if you need urgent advice concerning the “activities” of Chris and Clare Godson;
if you withdraw from a contract/commission with Chris Godson do not be bullied with threats of legal action but report the matter to the authorities responsible for commerce in France;
if Godson attempts to charge unsolicited “extras” resist all threats and report the matter;
the Godson couple advertise/market their gites, B&B, fosse septique, building enterprise with (understandably) no mention of their predatory paedophile cult, be very careful in your contact with them.
A remorseful former member of the cult has emailed us with some absolutely appalling insights into the activities of the leadership in Thailand and Cambodia.
The leadership of the cult ran child brothels in Thailand & Cambodia:
the televisions in the brothel
only ever showed hardcore pornography and all the magazines and books in
the building featured the same content. Self-esteem was controlled by
keeping the children naked as much as possible and forcing them to perform
menial tasks and sex acts. Hours were spent drumming it into the children
that they were stupid, and lucky to have beds where they could have sex and
sell their bodies, and at all times, they were reminded that their
principal asset was their ability to sexually gratify adults by using every
h*** in their bodies.
Please email: arielacohen99@gmail.com
Clare Godson: the early years.
My friend and colleague, journalist Robert Cahill, remarked in 2009 that we "hover between pity and loathing" for this woman.
Clare was born into a hopelessly dysfunctional family setting where she was bruised and warped by the abuse and cruelty of her, East End racketeer, father Harry Soden. It was decided, at some stage in her childhood, to wash away the lowly East End roots and put the girl into a Surrey boarding school where she could have a thin veneer of "poshness" and respectability applied. It was at this school that Clare Soden thrived as the merciless leader of a "pack" of bullies.
In recent months there has been an outpouring from former pupils of memories of misery inflicted by Clare Soden, indeed many of the victims demanding justice and something close to revenge.
It is quite a difficult path for us to keep our WHISTLEBLOWER Blog dispassionate when we hear of the suffering inflicted by this very disturbed woman when only a child herself.
When you learn about sexual abuse of this extreme kind it is very hard to present a balanced article/post.
Our correspondents, from this period, speak of the fear engendered by coming into contact with Clare. We understand that Clare spared no one. Young pupils begged their parents to take them away. The bullying was institutionalised when Clare wangled the position of "Head Girl." This gave the young Clare, exhibiting obvious personality disorders, a chance to create protection rackets worthy of her East End roots. In this sad time for the school, Clare hunted and tormented anyone she perceived as an intellectually gifted pupil or alternatively vulnerable to extreme bullying. Our correspondents all assert that savage beatings were the norm under the umbrella of the "Head Girl" title. Many of our correspondents speak of extreme sexual perversion already evident in Clare's "capricious punishments" for the target pupil. It did seem to pupils at the time that nothing could touch Clare Soden. A parent might complain to the Head or teachers about the bullying and find that it gave Clare a further opportunity to single out the child of the complainer and make their life a world of misery. This must have been an incredibly dark period in the history of B****** School. Boarding schools of this type were closed communities where horrific bullying and perversion could go unchallenged.
Our correspondents all assert that the staff were deeply frightened of Clare Soden and seemed unable to control the "gang" activities she introduced. They all suggest that Clare was blackmailing staff members. Clare tortured new pupils with impunity and exacted heavy payments for small favours. Failing to pay Clare Soden produced far worse than a "slapping" for the target pupil. Clare was at this time developing forms of psychological torture that she has prifitably brought to the service of the foundation USA cult and to her own offshoot cult in Benevent l'Abbaye. She was also perfecting ways of draining funds from the vulnerable that she has brought to the service of the present cult.
It can be no surprise that someone brought up in a climate of shameful parental abuse, deprived of even the basic norms of behaviour, should go on to create one of the most evil cults we have investigated. It comes as no surprise that, under the umbrella of a "Christian outreach programme" in the far East, she should form a relationship with an old-fashioned "perv" who would eventually become her husband and joint leader of the cult. This gave them an opportunity to brand themselves as former "missionaries" in their early advertising in 2004. This tawdry claim has been deleted from much of their present adverts as more evidence of criminality has come to light. Her husband has the far from affectionate nick of "Creeeeepy Chris" in the Benevent l'Abbaye area.
"HOWEVER, looking back (so easy to read things in retrospectively), what the Godsons told me of their story (moving constantly from country to country) fitted in with the internet stories, and I have to say Chris Godson was not a man I’d wish to meet on a dark night alone." Quote from Scruffy1.
Ariela Cohen arielacohen99@gmail.com March 2014.
Below we publish some newspaper articles that give a window on to the murky world of child abusers and pornographers. A very interesting development is that the administrators of child porn forums called themselves "son of god" in homage to the lead supplier of child porn. This needs further investigation..........................
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Back in jail: Twitter perv
A paedophile has been jailed and an international child abuse network uncovered on Twitter after a Sunday Mirror investigation.
Police arrested the pervert only two hours after we handed over disturbing evidence of offenders trading vile images worldwide using the site.
And the railway engineer, 36, was put straight behind bars as it emerged he was a registered sex offender released early a few months ago.
Detectives are expected to make further UK arrests after we discovered 34 suspect Twitter accounts and dozens of child abuse images, with victims as young as four.
A number of the seized man’s followers hinted they were based overseas in France, America and the Far East during our undercover operation. Police are likely to liaise with foreign forces to track down their IP addresses.
The railwayman from Swindon, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is the second paedophile to be caught as a result of our ongoing probe into Twitter after Olympic worker Ian Edwards was sentenced to 18 months in June.
Our investigators joined forces with child protection expert Mark Williams-Thomas, who exposed Jimmy Savile, after spotting the newly-released prisoner at work on the social network.
The man signed up on August 7 and posted 261 tweets with dozens of sick images in just one week, quickly gathering 181 followers, including our undercover reporter.
Mr Williams-Thomas said many of the man’s depraved images, depicting victims as young as four, fell within serious categories of child abuse.
Posing as a paedophile, our investigator sent a direct message to the man on Wednesday night just as he changed his profile snap to a child in underwear. The pervert said of the images he had posted: “I think I’m sailing close to the wind but I’ve also seen naughtier.”
In one message, he said he lived in Wiltshire and was a Network Rail contractor before revealing: “Seen my first ever video clip tonight on kik”.
Kik is a Canadian-owned messaging app popular with children. West Sussex police have been investigating complaints from parents that girls aged 12 have asked to send indecent images of themselves to other users.
The direct messages continued into the early hours of Thursday. Our investigator asked him where he got images and if he used file sharing sites.
The offender said: “Na, I would never touch file sharing sites. Most have been thro mail.” He also confirmed knowledge of a well-known phrase often used by paedophiles to locate indecent images online of children.
He told our man: “Thought with [deleted] you might have had a lil collection. Or at least know where to find folks. To swap mail. I’m surprised with what some post.”
Our man acknowledged it was risky sharing material and asked him for his age preference for images. The paedophile replied: “I try to keep small amounts an quite often delete & destroy. I also live in that fear. Young.”
He gave our investigator full access to all his pictures and sickening conversations with other perverts. They ranged from a married dad in the Midlands to perverts in the Far East.
Unaware the man was a convicted paedophile, we handed our evidence to Wiltshire police who immediately contacted Mr Williams-Thomas for his expert opinion on the images the man had posted. Mr Williams-Thomas said later: “He made very little effort to hide. He openly posted child abuse images and discussed with other UK users the sexual abuse of young children.
“Twitter needs to get proactive. It’s a playground for child abusers.”
Two hours after we handed over the information, officers visited an address in Swindon and arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of possessing indecent images. He was found to be in breach of his licence conditions. He has been recalled to prison.
Last year he was jailed for two years at Swindon crown court after pleading guilty to possessing prohibited images of a child and making and distributing images of extreme pornography, including bestiality. Police are understood to be investigating the man regarding alleged new offences after removing material from a property.
Wiltshire acting Det Chief Insp Mike Selbie said: “We would like to thank the Sunday Mirror for the evidence they presented in this matter.
“Although offenders like this man are managed while on licence, this highlights the importance of the public reporting wrongdoing. This information enables police to take quick action to prevent further offending.”
We have also handed evidence of the suspect Twitter accounts to the
renowned Child Exploitation Online Protection centre, which tracks online sex offenders around the world.
Just weeks ago we tracked down Brit Michael Murphy living in Spain who posted vile images of boys on the site.
In June, paedophile Edwards was jailed for 18 months after we caught him trading child sex abuse images.
Edwards, 50, of East London, confessed to police he had been exchanging the sick material for years. When he was arrested a year ago we lobbied Twitter to clean up its act after finding 200 perverts trading material online. With the backing of child protection experts, charities and MPs, we demanded action from the site.
It said it was introducing photoDNA software to help identity child abuse images and it recruited extra staff to its safety and security team.
A Twitter spokesman said: “When we are made aware of links to content promoting child sexual exploitation they will be removed and reported to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
“We permanently suspend accounts promoting or containing updates with links to child
Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) raided the homes of scores of suspects on Wednesday morning, seizing 173 computers and 469 storage devices which have since been found to hold some 600,000 images of children.
"Now, 29 hours after the operation began, we have questioned and charged 73 people. Forty-four of these have admitted guilt," the Kripos's Bjørn-Erik Ludvigsen said in a press conference on Thursday.
Many of the people to be charged, who were all users of the file-sharing network eDonkey2000, had been previously convicted of abusing children.
"In about 30 percent of the cases, those who are suspected of or charged with distributing images are also physical abusers," said Lena Reif, head of the NCIS's sexual crime unit.
Peterborough: Police smash ‘biggest child-sex ring’ in the UK
Six men have been arrested and almost 50 alleged victims of rape, abuse and sex slavery aged as young as 12
Gang is suspected of abusing under-age girls in Peterborough (Picture posed by model)
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Police believe they have smashed what could be Britain’s biggest child-sex ring.
Six men have been arrested so far and officers have identified almost 50 alleged victims of rape, abuse and sex slavery aged as young as 12.
Detectives fear those numbers could easily reach more than 100 in a case potentially bigger than the Rochdale grooming scandal.
The men suspected of carrying out the abuse are of various nationalities, a source said.
Police originally believed they were dealing with two separate rings operating in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
But they now suspect a large gang was targeting vulnerable youngsters across the city.
Officers have already taken statements from 10 girls but there are a further 37 who they think were abused and are waiting to interview.
The number of alleged victims already equals the toll of the previous worst child sex ring uncovered. That was in Rochdale last year, where a gang of Asian men abused 47 victims from troubled backgrounds.
Our source said: “The investigation has only just started, but this could be the worst child sex slave ring the country has seen so far.
“Police and social workers are doing their utmost to identify other perpetrators and victims but it is too early to say how many there could be.
“The men are suspected of targeting vulnerable girls in care or outside schools for grooming.
“They would allegedly give them booze, drugs or money before using them as sex slaves.”
The arrests were made after two Cambridgeshire police operations, codenamed Earl and Jardine, were launched into child grooming in Peterborough in the wake of the Rochdale scandal.
A damning Ofsted report 18 months ago had found the city’s council had failed to adequately protect vulnerable children.
The “serious deficiencies” discovered led to the resignation of the city’s director of Children’s Services John Richards.
The city councillor in charge of Children’s Services, Sheila Scott, said she was told of the allegations at the start of the year – and that the council backed the police investigation.
A council source said: “You have a horror this abuse may be happening on your patch, but huge relief that it has been found out. The allegations are appalling.”
All six men suspected of grooming the youngsters are on bail and have not been charged.
The nine men convicted in the Rochdale scandal were given sentences from four to 19 years for plying girls as young as 10 with booze and drugs before abusing them between 2008 and 2009. The judge said they treated their victims “as though they were worthless and beyond respect”.
In 2010 five men from Rotherham were jailed after being found guilty of grooming young girls for sex. Nine men were jailed for abusing 27 girls in Derby.
Thirty-one children and babies who were repeatedly abused live for an internet chatroom have been rescued from homes in the UK and abroad following the biggest international investigation so far into an online paedophile ring.Officers from Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre worked for 10 months with detectives from 35 other countries to identify and rescue the children, who were being abused and filmed live for the thousands of members of the chatroom. More than 15 of the children and babies were found in Britain and handed over to the care of social services.The international inquiry, in which specialist detectives with experience in counter-terrorism posed as paedophiles online, led yesterday to the jailing of Timothy David Martyn Cox, the British "godfather" of the paedophile ring.Cox, 27, who lived at his parents' farmhouse in Buxhall, Suffolk, used the pseudonym Son of God to run the chatroom Kids the Light of Our Lives, a forum on which paedophiles shared live images of the abuse of children.Cox, who ran the operation from a computer in his bedroom, was given an indeterminate jail sentence at Ipswich crown court yesterday after admitting nine offences relating to the possession and distribution of indecent images of children. Judge Peter Thompson said Cox would stay in prison until experts decided it was safe to release him.A second British mastermind, Gordon McIntosh, 32, was also identified and arrested at his home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, during the investigation. McIntosh, who took over the running of the chatroom after Cox's arrest in September, will be sentenced on June 29 after pleading guilty to 27 charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent images and films. Police said among 392 indecent film files in McIntosh's possession were videos of babies being raped.More than 700 chatroom members, including 200 in Britain, are still being investigated. Among those already in prison are a 32-year-old from Stockport, Greater Manchester, who was jailed for a minimum of seven years last week after admitting child rape, and Graham Conridge, 60, a music teacher from Bedford who posed online as a teenage boy to persuade girls to strip and perform indecent acts in front of webcams. He was jailed for 32 months in April.Jim Gamble, the chief executive of the online protection centre, said yesterday paedophiles had earned their place in the chatroom by proving they could procure and circulate images of serious abuse.
"From the apparent safety of his home, Cox spent hours each day planning, promoting and encouraging the abuse of innocent young victims," Mr Gamble said. "He provided a service to hundreds of like-minded individuals."
Cox lived with his father David, an accountant, mother Mavis and sister Louise at their farmhouse, where the family ran a microbrewery.
A single man with no children, he was a member in 2005 of an online paedophile chatroom known as Kiddypics, which was run by Raymond Weller, an American, who called himself God. When Weller was arrested at his home in Tennessee in March 2006, Cox took over as host of a new chatroom, identifying his links to Weller by calling himself Son of God.
But in August last year, officers from Toronto police identified a Briton as the new chatroom host and tipped off British investigators, who began an undercover operation with colleagues from Canada, America and Australia. They identified Cox and moved to arrest him at his home in September last year while he was online. As he was led away officers assumed his identity in the chatroom, posting a message on the site saying: "Son of God has gone for his tea and will be back in 30 minutes" to avoid arousing suspicions.
Over 10 days, officers posed as Cox to gather evidence on the thousands of members of the peer-to-peer website. Detectives found 75,960 indecent and explicit images on the computer in Cox's bedroom and evidence that he had supplied 11,491 images to other chatroom members.
Detective Sergeant Carl Fisher, of Suffolk police, said: "He showed no remorse when he was arrested. Our officers spent three months viewing the images and categorising them and they were the worst things we have ever seen."
The sting
When officers sat at Timothy Cox's computer and began communicating with members of his chatroom, they discovered 70 men were queueing to view an image of live abuse which was being circulated at the time.
Only minutes earlier, Cox had been led away in handcuffs and the detectives were assuming his online identity - Son of God - to gather evidence on the chatroom members.
Without circulating or procuring any images of abuse themselves, the officers spent 10 days "chatting" with hundreds of paedophiles from across the world. They encouraged members to talk about the abuse they were carrying out, the images they were procuring and circulating and what other abuse they had planned. As each man communicated in the chatroom his details were copied and sent to specialist online codebreakers for him to be identified.
Prospective members gained entry to the chatroom by impressing Cox and his lieutenants with the images they were able to procure.
Unlike many paedophile rings online, the abuse was carried out in real time and placed live online. It was the knowledge that so many children and babies were at risk that prompted officers to move quickly.
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A remorseful former member of the cult has emailed us with some absolutely appalling insights into the activities of the leadership in Thailand and Cambodia.
The leadership of the cult ran child brothels in Thailand & Cambodia:
the televisions in the brothel only ever showed hardcore pornography and all the magazines and books in the building featured the same content. Self-esteem was controlled by keeping the children naked as much as possible and forcing them to perform menial tasks and sex acts. Hours were spent drumming it into the children that they were stupid, and lucky to have beds where they could have sex and sell their bodies, and at all times, they were reminded that their principal asset was their ability to sexually gratify adults by using every h*** in their bodies.
A remorseful former member of the cult has emailed us with some absolutely appalling insights into the activities of the leadership in Thailand and Cambodia.
The leadership of the cult ran child brothels in Thailand & Cambodia:
the televisions in the brothel only ever showed hardcore pornography and all the magazines and books in the building featured the same content. Self-esteem was controlled by keeping the children naked as much as possible and forcing them to perform menial tasks and sex acts. Hours were spent drumming it into the children that they were stupid, and lucky to have beds where they could have sex and sell their bodies, and at all times, they were reminded that their principal asset was their ability to sexually gratify adults by using every h*** in their bodies.
A remorseful former member of the cult has emailed us with some absolutely appalling insights into the activities of the leadership in Thailand and Cambodia.
The leadership of the cult ran child brothels in Thailand & Cambodia:
the televisions in the brothel only ever showed hardcore pornography and all the magazines and books in the building featured the same content. Self-esteem was controlled by keeping the children naked as much as possible and forcing them to perform menial tasks and sex acts. Hours were spent drumming it into the children that they were stupid, and lucky to have beds where they could have sex and sell their bodies, and at all times, they were reminded that their principal asset was their ability to sexually gratify adults by using every h*** in their bodies.
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