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Porn website at center of CNN investigation into sexual abuse taken offline

Krdo · May 08, 2026 · 833 words · By CNN Newssource

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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The porn website Motherless... has been taken offline by Dutch authorities”

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Multiple independent web search results from CNN and other sources confirm that the website Motherless was taken offline by Dutch authorities.

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web search NEUTRAL — CNN (@CNN). 373 likes 94 replies. The porn website Motherless, which has faced international scrutiny over hosting content linked to gender-based violence and drug-facilitated sexual assault, has been…
https://x.com/CNN/status/2052772553098223995

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web search NEUTRAL — The porn website Motherless, which has faced international scrutiny over hosting content linked to gender-based violence and drug-facilitated sexual assault, has been taken offline by Dutch authoritie…
https://www.facebook.com/cnn/photos/the-porn-website-motherl…

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web search NEUTRAL — The porn website Motherless, which has faced international scrutiny over hosting content linked to gender-based violence and drug-facilitated sexual assault, has been taken offline by Dutch ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cnn_the-porn-website-motherle…

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“A spokesperson for the Dutch Public Prosecution Service told CNN that the site had been taken down by Dutch authorities and that prosecutors in Zeeland-West-Braband had opened a preliminary investigation.”

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While the general takedown is corroborated, the specific detail regarding the 'preliminary investigation' by prosecutors in 'Zeeland-West-Braband' is not explicitly confirmed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though the general event is reported by CNN.

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web search NEUTRAL — They open preliminary investigations and can hold a suspect in custody for up to 48 hours.With a judge investigating, Crown prosecutors do not conduct the interrogatories, but simply lay out the scope…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor

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web search NEUTRAL — The porn website Motherless, which faced scrutiny over hosting content linked to gender-based violence and drug-facilitated sexual assault, has been taken offline.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/europe/porn-site-motherless-t…

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“Motherless’ servers are located in the Netherlands and are hosted by NFOrce Internet Services, a company based in Steenbergen”

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Both DutchNews.nl and a Dutch-language search result confirm the site was hosted by NFOrce in Steenbergen.

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web search NEUTRAL — The site has been hosted since at least 2024 by Nforce, a provider based in the North Brabant town of Steenbergen. Speaking to NOS, Nforce director Simon Elimeleh said the volume of complaints meant t…
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/prosecutors-take-dutch-host…

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web search NEUTRAL — NL-3 | Nedzone Steenbergen (NZS). There is no difference in quality or routes in any of these locations. All our datacenter locations are connected to the same set of transit providers and peerings. C…
https://www.nforce.com/dedicated-servers

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web search NEUTRAL — De site is zeker sinds 2024 ondergebracht bij Nforce, een hostingbedrijf uit Steenbergen, dat vaker met problematische en illegale content in verband is gebracht. "Wij verlenen infrastructuurdiensten …
https://nos.nl/artikel/2613430-servers-pornosite-met-misbrui…

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“Previous investigations carried out by journalists in Germany and Canada also found thousands of videos in which unconscious women appeared to be raped and sexually abused.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic Wikipedia entries about journalists and music albums, which do not provide any information regarding investigations into Motherless by journalists in Germany and Canada.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jonathan Allen Lethem ( LEETH-əm born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of sci…
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“The website has been hosted on Dutch servers since at least 2024, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS”

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Both DutchNews.nl and another web search result explicitly state the site has been hosted on Dutch servers since at least 2024.

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“NOS and current affairs program Nieuwsuur reported that an analysis of 20,000 videos that appeared on the Motherless homepage last week found those tagged “incest” by users were among the site’s most-viewed categories”

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The provided evidence contains generic porn tags and unrelated YouTube/Wikipedia results, but does not contain the specific report from NOS or Nieuwsuur regarding the analysis of 20,000 videos.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Motherless means having only a father. Motherless may also refer to: Motherless (film), 2022 Iranian film Motherless (sculpture), an 1889 sculpture by George Anderson Lawson Motherless (painting), an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherless_(disambiguation)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Motherless Brooklyn is a 2019 American neo-noir crime film written, produced, and directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel by Jonathan Lethem. Set in 1957 New York City, the film stars Norto…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherless_Brooklyn

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", also "Motherless Child", is a traditional spiritual. It dates back to the era of slavery in the United States. An early performance of the song was in the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometimes_I_Feel_Like_a_Mother…

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“one of the platform’s most-watched videos in the past week had also been tagged with “rape,” “sister” and “school girl.””

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The provided evidence shows generic search results for adult content but does not corroborate the specific claim about a most-watched video tagged with 'rape', 'sister', and 'school girl' in the context of the report.

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web search NEUTRAL — Madisin lee raped sleeping mom in the ass [goliemisli+18, milf anal, incest son, big tits, big a...Süre 11 dakika 20 saniye.
https://twitter.yandex.com.tr/video/search?text=amatör+uyuya…

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web search NEUTRAL — We provide the hottest forced sex videos from movies and TV series. Legendary stars sexually abused in hollywood rape and domination scenes.
https://forcedcinema.net/

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web search NEUTRAL — I’m Selena, a daughter born to a family well-known for their fertile women. I was sold off in a marriage to a sickly duke whose life hung in the balance, for...
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“CNN reported that Motherless was home to more than 20,000 videos of so-called “sleep” content uploaded by users, categorized using descriptive tags such as #passedout and #eyecheck at the time of publishing in late March 2026.”

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Three separate web sources (IBTimes UK, Medium, and another search result) all confirm the CNN report regarding 20,000+ videos of 'sleep' content with tags like #passedout and #eyecheck.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Motherless Brooklyn is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999. Told in first person, the story follows Lionel Essrog, a private investigator who has Tourette's, a disorder marked …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherless_Brooklyn_(novel)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The twenty-second season of the American medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy was announced on April 3, 2025, and premiered in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey's_Anatomy_season_22

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Motherless Brooklyn is a 2019 American neo-noir crime film written, produced, and directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel by Jonathan Lethem. Set in 1957 New York City, the film stars Norto…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherless_Brooklyn

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“NFOrce said that it had launched an urgent compliance and abuse-handling review, giving Motherless 12 hours to respond.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute this claim.

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“the platform Dominique Pelicot used to recruit more than 70 men to rape his ex-wife Gisèle – whose domain was moved after it came under scrutiny, before eventually being shut down.”

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“Last month, a site appearing very similar to Coco, called Cocoland.cc, resurfaced online, with its domain registered in the Coco Islands, a remote Australian territory.”

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“French authorities have now opened a probe into the new site [Cocoland.cc].”

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“Motherless, which recorded nearly 82 million visitors in March and whose core audience is in the United States”

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“The site’s domain name is registered in the Czech Republic, and its parent company is registered in Costa Rica.”

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