Leaked chats show how Andrew Tate and associates lured women into sex trafficking: report

  (Raw Story) : Leaked messages show influencer Andrew Tate and his "War Room" group discussed techniques for grooming women into online sex work using violence and isolation from their friends and families. The 36-year-old former kickboxer has been charged in Romania with rape and human trafficking, and the BBCpublished details from the encrypted Telegram messages sent between March 2019 and April 2020 that suggest the trafficking operation was led not by Tate but a Chicago native called Miles Sonkin,reported The Daily Beast . “Then we ‘punish’ her for a transgression — real or imagined — by having her get our name tattooed on her,” read a post allegedly sent by Sonkin, who uses the alias “Iggy Semmelweiss." "Leaving her’s family’s home/apartment/town/country, WebCamming/stripping/walking the track for us, getting us girls, escalate, escalate, escalate.” POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? Two days later, Sonkin allegedly wrote that "isolating her from her family, friends, past, is the KINDEST thing you can do for her IF you are taking RESPONSIBILITY for having SOLE AUTHORITY over her.” The BBC reports that Sonkin had an interest in right-wing extremism in the early 2000s and has been involved with at least two groups suspected of being cults. According to Tate, who has denied all wrongdoing, the War Room gives members, who pay $8,000 a year, "access to thousands of professionals from around the world who encourage personal responsibility and accountability, [emphasizing] the importance of taking ownership of your choices and actions.” The ..