They Wanted Me
Silent.

Online Grooming via MSN Chatrooms

A neighbour lured me into his home and placed me on a webcam in Microsoft's MSN chatrooms, displaying me to a network of paedophiles. These chatrooms were unmoderated and unpoliced. My school counsellor helped me report it to Microsoft, contacting their abuse team, admin, and individual staff members. Every attempt was ignored. This was the beginning of my entry into an organised abuse network.

Filmed, Identified, and Distributed

I was taken to a wealthy stockbroker's home and recorded in an "interview" video. I was forced to undress and give personal information on camera before being sexually abused. This video was shared among the network as an introduction. I became a commodity. I was transported on weekends to be abused by multiple perpetrators across different locations.

There Was No Gap. It Never Stopped.

From the age of 8 until I was 16, I was continuously abused and trafficked. There was no break. There was no pause. There was no period where I got to be a normal child. I was passed between abusers, transported to different locations, filmed, drugged, assaulted, and exploited for years. The abuse evolved as I got older, from online grooming to in-person assaults to being trafficked through venues like Crown Casino, but it never stopped. Every weekend, every school holiday, every opportunity these men had access to me, they took it. This wasn't a series of isolated incidents. It was my entire childhood, stolen from me by an organised network of predators and enabled by every institution that should have protected me.

Over 50 Visits to a Licensed Casino as a Trafficking Victim

Crown Casino Melbourne, specifically Crown Towers and the Metropol, became a regular venue for my abuse over a period of approximately four years. My traffickers knew Crown management personally and made phone calls to override security when guards tried to stop a child from entering. Crown staff served alcohol to me (a 12-year-old) and illegal drugs were delivered to the hotel rooms by room service, hidden under cloches and towels, disguised as meals. The drugs were used to sedate and incapacitate me. I attended these properties more than 50 times during this period. I was not a guest. I was a child being raped, and Crown provided the venue, the alcohol, the drugs, and the access.

Six Boys Report to Police: and Are Threatened

I went to the police along with six other boys who had been subjected to similar abuse. We were separated into different areas of the station and given pen and paper to write out our statements. When we followed up a week later, we were threatened with charges: harassment and possession of child abuse material, if we continued. The system that was supposed to protect us was used to silence us.

A Gun to My Head

Two weeks after going to the police, I was confronted by two abusers, one of whom was a police officer. He pointed his service weapon at my head and pulled the trigger on an unloaded gun, telling me: "This is what you get for going to the cops." They then urinated on me while recording the assault on video. I was tied to a hotel maid's trolley and wheeled around violently to terrorise me. The abuse didn't stop when I reported it. It got worse.

My Abuse Material Remains on the Internet

Child sexual abuse material of me has surfaced on the dark web, on clearnet websites, and is discoverable through mainstream search engines. Friends have recognised me in material that should never have been created, let alone distributed. The platforms hosting this material have been slow or unwilling to act. I am still being victimised by the continued existence and distribution of this content.

Crown's Anonymous Gatekeeper

My first contact with Crown. I reported that I was a child sex trafficking victim who had been abused in Crown venues. An anonymous "Security Incident Co-ordinator" responded. He demanded my surname, the names of my abusers, and specific dates. He refused to give me even his first name despite being asked twice. When I declined to hand over personal details to someone who wouldn't identify themselves, and instead asked Crown to answer for their role in facilitating my abuse, I was shut down. His second email stated Crown was "unable to progress the matter further due to the lack of specific details." He directed me to Victoria Police. This was the totality of Crown's initial response to a child trafficking survivor.

Going Over Crown's Head: After Many Attempts

After being stonewalled by Crown's anonymous security coordinator, I began contacting Blackstone directly. The email to their Press Inquiries address on November 18 was not my first attempt. I had already sent emails to Blackstone's investor relations, shareholder relations, privacy team, and individual executives including CEO Stephen Schwarzman. I contacted over 20 Blackstone employees across multiple departments. Not one replied. The Press Inquiries email was the one that finally reached Jonathan Halliwell eight days later. It took contacting over 20 people at the company that owns Crown to get a single response.

"Unable to Progress"

Crown's security coordinator sent his final response: "We are unable to progress the matter further." He encouraged me to contact Victoria Police. No apology. No acknowledgment of Crown's role. No accountability. I told him to escalate to higher management. This was the moment I realised Crown had no intention of doing anything.

Threatening Phone Calls Begin

Within days of contacting Crown, I received two threatening phone calls from private numbers. November 24 at 11:13am, a caller identifying himself as "Jim." November 29 at 4:17pm, an unnamed caller. These were the first two of what would become at least eight threatening calls over the following months.

Jonathan Halliwell's One and Only Email

Jonathan Halliwell, Blackstone's General Counsel for Australia, responded to my email. He said Blackstone and Crown "take such matters very seriously," introduced Kate Squire as Crown's General Counsel, and offered the option of external counsel at Kirkland & Ellis. This was the only time Jonathan Halliwell ever communicated with me. Despite being copied on every subsequent email for the next four months, he never responded again.

Details Provided, Then Silence

Kate Squire asked for specifics: which properties, what time period, who threatened me. I gave her everything: Crown Towers and the Metropol, age 12 to almost 16, over 50 visits, specific dates and times of threatening calls from my phone log. I shared graphic details of the abuse that occurred in those rooms. Kate responded on December 5 promising a personal review. She asked for more details about Crown staff I recalled. She never answered my questions about what the review would actually involve.

Three Lawyers, Zero Accountability

Kate proposed a video conference. On December 15, three lawyers from three companies were invited: Kate Squire (Crown), Cori Lable (Kirkland & Ellis), and Jonathan Halliwell (Blackstone). Halliwell didn't bother to show up. Kate and Cori attended and attempted to outflank me. Not a single victim support professional was present. I informed them I was recording, and Cori Lable responded "we assumed you would." They asked what I wanted. I said a formal written apology. When I asked hypothetical questions about potential court proceedings, they admitted they would be my opponents. They promised a follow-up meeting with management after the call. I was also offered a bribe to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. I refused.

A Fourth Threat, and Counting

Five days after the video conference, I followed up asking how the promised management meeting went. I reported a fourth threatening phone call received at 7:39pm the night before. The caller said things that referenced details I had only shared with Kate, Jonathan, and Cori, indicating that either they or someone they shared my communications with was connected to the threats. One caller mocked me, saying the lawyers would "have his back and protect him" and told me to "cry harder baby." I received no response to this email.

Silence Forces My Hand

After six weeks of silence over the holiday period, broken only by more threatening phone calls, I built a website documenting everything. On January 30, I sent a preview to Kate, Cori, and Jonathan. On February 2, Kate responded. Not with apology, not with review findings, not with answers to my questions. She asked me not to launch the website and claimed they "did not consent" to the video conference being recorded. She asked me to hand over my evidence. Her priority was containment, not accountability. I refused. I pointed out that Cori's response of "we assumed you would" constituted consent to the recording, and that Crown had no right to speak to me about consent given what was done to me as a child without my consent. By this point, the death threats had reached at least seven.

Crown's Final Answer: A Masterclass in Dishonesty

After five months of engagement, during which I provided every detail asked of me, endured at least eight death threats, was offered a bribe to sign an NDA, was flanked by three lawyers from three companies, had every question ignored, and received zero answers about what happened to me as a child in their venue. Crown's anonymous executive communications team sent me one email. Let me break down every lie in it:

"No such details have been provided."
This is a lie. On November 26, 2025, I provided extensive detail about how the abuse occurred, the NDA bribe, and the ongoing threats. On December 3, 2025, I provided Kate Squire with the property names (Crown Towers and the Metropol), my exact age range (12 to almost 16), the frequency of visits (50+), and the specific dates and times of threatening phone calls from my phone log. All of this is documented in the emails above.

"We engaged with you in good faith."
This is a lie. Crown's first response was an anonymous security coordinator who demanded my personal details while refusing to give his own name, then shut me down. When I escalated to Blackstone, Crown sent three lawyers from three companies, not victim support. Blackstone's General Counsel was invited to the December 15 video conference but didn't even show up. The lawyers who did attend admitted they would be my opponents in any court proceeding. I was offered a bribe to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Kate Squire promised a personal review, promised a meeting with management, and then disappeared for months. That is not good faith. That is legal containment.

"We have conducted a review concerning your allegations that Crown employees or contractors are involved in sending you harassing and/or threatening communications. We have found nothing."
How? Crown does not have my phone. They do not have access to my call records. The most they could have done is ask internally, and accept denials at face value from the very people who might be responsible. The callers referenced details that were only shared with Kate Squire, Jonathan Halliwell, and Cori Lable. When I raised this fact, Kate stopped communicating. This "review" is a fiction designed to close the file.

"Please be assured we have shared them with the Victorian Police... Please also be assured that we have made our gaming regulators aware of your allegations."
I have been told by the regulator that the report Crown claims to have made does not exist. Victoria Police have not contacted me. If Crown did go to the police and regulators as they claim, where is the evidence? Where is the report? Why hasn't a single investigator reached out to me? I believe these claims are fabricated. Crown wrote them into their email to create the appearance of a company acting responsibly, knowing that most people would take them at face value and never check. I checked. The same institution that conducted a fake "review" of death threats is now claiming to have made reports that nobody can find. And even if they did make those reports, ask yourself what that conversation looked like. It wasn't "we need to report that a child was trafficked through our venue while our staff served him alcohol and delivered drugs to the room." It was their lawyers, on their terms, framing the narrative defensively before I had the chance to tell my side. And here's the other thing: even if they did go to the police and regulators, they did it five to six months after I first reported to them. They had a team of lawyers on this from day one. They knew the severity of the allegations immediately. A child was trafficked and raped in their licensed venue. Their staff served that child alcohol and delivered drugs to the room. And it took them half a year to report it? That is a failure of their reporting obligations no matter how you frame it. A victim of child sexual abuse should not have to know the law better than a team of corporate lawyers from three different firms. That is why I went to the regulators myself and copied nine bodies simultaneously, so Crown could not control the story. This is the pattern: say you've done something, don't actually do it, then point to your own words as proof that you did.

"We therefore respectfully request that you cease communications with our staff."
Let me be clear about what this is. This is a company, found by three government inquiries to have facilitated money laundering, partnered with human traffickers, and engaged in conduct described as "illegal, dishonest, unethical and exploitative", telling a child sexual abuse and trafficking survivor to stop talking about being raped in their venue. They supplied alcohol to that child. They delivered heroin and other drugs to the rooms where that child was being abused. Their staff saw a child in those rooms and said nothing. And now they are telling that child, now an adult, to be silent. This is concealment. This is what Crown has always done. Old management, new management, the instinct is the same: protect the licence, silence the victim.

I forwarded the entire exchange to nine regulatory bodies. I will not cease communications. I will not be silent. I will not stop until Crown's licence is permanently revoked and the public knows exactly what kind of company this is.