Victory for Survivors: Website Promoting Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault Taken Offline

For Immediate Release: May 8, 2026
Contact: media@fwdshift.com

UltraViolet’s petition, garnering over 28,000 signatures, raised the alarm against the site’s “online rape academy” and called on Google and major search engines to stop promoting it

UltraViolet, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization responsible for numerous impactful victories against sexual predators and tech-facilitated sexual violence, issued the following statement after Dutch authorities confirmed that Motherless.com, a so-called “porn” website that had been enabling and commodifying the mass rape of drugged women, had been taken offline:

“We commend the Dutch authorities responsible for taking down this horrific website platforming, promoting, and profiting off of  the sexual violence of drugged women,” said Jenna Sherman, Campaign Director at UltraViolet. “We are inspired by the brave journalists, survivors, and allies across the world—including tens of thousands of UltraViolet members—for demanding and securing this win. At the same time, we emphatically voice our disappointment in the US-based companies, like Google, who appear to still promote this disturbing online network, and similar replica sites, to the detriment of their users.”

On March 26, CNN reporting uncovered a global ‘online rape’ academy showcasing sexual violence against women and teaching others how to perpetrate it. The groundbreaking investigation was led by investigative reporters Saskya Vandoorne and Niamh Kennedy, and reporter and producer Kara Fox. At the center of the hidden, online world of sexual crimes they uncovered was “Motherless,” a website housing over 20,000 videos of so-called “sleep” content, depicting men sexually assaulting unconscious women.

Following the release of CNN’s investigation, UltraViolet launched a petition, mobilizing its base membership and garnering more than 28,000 signatures calling on Google and all major search engines to deplatform, or de-index, Motherless and all replica websites immediately.

“Today is a day of celebration. The removal of Motherless represents an immense victory for the courageous survivors who spoke out about the drug-facilitated sexual violence they experienced. But today is also a day of reckoning: if the removal of an outright rape website is cause for celebration, what does that say about how unsafe the internet is for women? We must continue pushing for accountability from tech companies and search engines like Google, Meta, and X, which must do more to prevent their platforms from being used to facilitate and promote these networks of abuse,” Sherman concluded.

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