Women are being drugged, raped, and filmed all over the world, and the users of these depraved online groups, channels, and forums are profiting from the sexual violence of their own wives and partners.

Women and girls are often told not to walk home alone at night, to move in groups, and are often encouraged to learn techniques to defend themselves against strangers with malicious motives they may encounter in a dark alley.

But the unsettling thing is, the likelihood of being attacked, assaulted, or even murdered by someone you don’t know is, while not impossible, slim.

The victim usually knows the person. It could be a friend, current or former partner, coworker, neighbor, or family member, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The internet has only helped perpetuate sexual violence, as users hide behind this veil of anonymity and end-to-end encryption to live out their sick fantasies online, under the illusion that they’ll never be caught.

An investigation by CNN journalists uncovered group chats on popular messaging apps like Telegram, where users would discuss drugging and raping their partners, even profiting off of the crime via livestreams.

“Moral free” pornsite hosts extreme content

There’s a pornsite called “Motherless” which hosts countless videos and had 62 million users in February. The site's main user base mainly comes from the United States.

Motherless markets itself as a “moral free file host site where anything legal is hosted forever.”

While the site reassures users that what they’re viewing is within the law, the categories imply a murky legality.

Users can look up videos under categories like “real incest,” “execution,” “strangled,” “hanged,” “crying,” “blackmail,” and other extreme types of content.

But one category stood out to journalists: “sleep.”

Cybernews was unable to find this category on the site, but tags like “passed out” are still being used to label content.

The Motherless “sleep” community was first reported by investigative journalists Isabell Beer and Isabel Ströh.

The journalists then discovered a shocking Telegram group, “Zzz,” which openly discussed raping their unconscious partners, how to do it, and where to get the sedatives.

Telegram’s online “rape academy”

This now-defunct group, “Zzz,” was said to have around 1,000 members when CNN first started its investigation.

A Motherless user sent a link to the “Zzz” group chat, and journalists went in, posing as male users, to gather information.

What they found were users selling “tasteless and odorless” substances called “sleeping liquids” that claimed to knock out anyone, anywhere in the world.

One Telegram seller near the North African coast was selling these liquids for $175 per bottle.

The user promised that the buyer's wives wouldn’t feel anything and wouldn’t remember anything after the unnamed substance was administered.

While platforms vary, the journalists found a common thread within all of these pro-rape chats. Video reigned supreme.

Users would promote their livestreams, which showed footage of people drugging and raping women live.

The price is a measly $20 to watch a woman being violated, with cryptocurrency being the preferred method of payment.

One of the chats showed two users discussing the livestreams, with one user saying that the viewers instructed him how to abuse his wife.

Another user who was advertising their content teased journalists with a clip from their previous livestream.

The video showed him climbing on top of his snoring, sleeping wife. The clip ended abruptly to avoid giving too much away for free.

“It’s hard for me to put her to sleep”

A Polish man, whose identity has been protected and is known only as Piotr, was a member of the “Zzz” group, CNN reported.

Piotr wasn’t simply complicit. He was actively drugging and raping his 40-year-old wife for an unknown period of time.

The man discussed drugging his wife with sleeping pills and alcohol, a potentially deadly combination that could harm or even kill those who use them together.

“I’m hiding it well enough,” Piotr told journalists, “but I have to be careful.”

The man openly shared details with CNN journalists, including his supposed address. When asked to meet face-to-face following months of conversations, Piotr was hesitant.

The journalists traveled to his hometown and found him and his wife at a local restaurant. Instead of approaching the pair, journalists decided to go to the police.

It appeared his wife knew nothing about her husband’s dark secret.

While this investigation might seem unique, it really isn’t. All over the world, people are using anonymous group chats to facilitate rape and sexual violence against women.

Over 70 men raped a man’s wife while he watched

One of the most well-known cases of this nature is the sexual violence experienced by French woman Gisele Pelicot.

Pelicot was being routinely drugged and raped by the various men her husband, Dominique, had recruited to sexually abuse his sleeping wife.

They had been married for 50 years.

Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife for nine years and invited men he met over the internet to engage in nonconsensual sexual relations with his wife.

The site, “Coco.fr,” which has now been taken down, was used by Dominique to find men who want to engage in sexual violence.

This site was publicly available on the clear web.

Digital forensics revealed that Dominique had footage of these rapes on his devices. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his crimes.

Other perpetrators claimed that they were unaware that she was not consenting.

By the end of the trial, 51 men were convicted of the crimes of sexual violence in varying degrees.

“Sammyboy” sex forum used to rape wives in Singapore

This sexual forum used by people in Asia helped to facilitate the drugging and rape of users' wives.

Similar to the “Zzz” Telegram group and the “Coco.fr” website, “Sammyboy” was used to share images and videos of men raping each other's wives while they were drugged and unconscious.

Seven men were accused of crimes against each other's wives, with reports stating that at least three of the men had helped others gain access to their wives and watched them as they raped or attempted to rape the victims.

“Sammyboy” is an independent platform, but it was linked to a Telegram group investigated in 2019.

Telegram groups in Spain and Italy profit from partners' bodies

An investigation into Telegram communities across Spain and Italy has shown the way men are sharing and profiting from nonconsensual images of the women in their lives.

The AI Forensics investigation, Harassment as infrastructure, claims that the encrypted messaging platform is exploiting the same privacy features that millions rely on to create a structured, monetized, and largely automated ecosystem of abusive and nonconsensual images.

There were supposedly 16 Telegram groups and channels with 24,000 users, and a single group reached tens of thousands of members.

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Much of the content shared in these groups involved women whom the users knew personally.

The report says that victims are mainly “ordinary women” and include partners, acquaintances, and former partners of perpetrators, alongside public figures.

Victims are typically unaware that their images are being taken, shared, and discussed online.

Some of this content is said to have been taken with hidden cameras or filmed while the victims were asleep.

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Updated on April 20th [07:55 AM GMT] – CNN previously reported that 1,000 people were a part of the Telegram group. However, this figure has now been removed from the report.

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