Domestic Drugging: When Your Partner Becomes the Threat
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Home is meant to be the safest place—but for some, it becomes the most dangerous.
In this episode, we uncover the hidden world of domestic drugging and abuse within relationships. An investigation by CNN revealed that one chatroom with this horrifying abuse as it's subject, had over 62 million views in just one month.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion. This episode contains descriptions of sexual abuse and domestic violence. Please take extra care whilst listening. Whilst most of us have known that evil exists and that domestic violence is one of the most |
| 0:21.9 | serious issues facing humanity, we're now confronting a disturbing new reality. Partners, who drug and |
| 0:30.8 | sexually abuse their spouses, not only for their own gratification, but for the consumption of strangers online. |
| 0:38.3 | As if that alone wasn't the stuff of nightmares, |
| 0:43.3 | in some cases these strangers come into the victim's real world, |
| 0:49.3 | leaving them often unaware of the sexual and physical harm they're being subjected to. |
| 0:56.0 | An investigation by CNN found that chat rooms on a popular messaging service dedicated |
| 1:03.0 | to men drugging and raping their partners whilst they were asleep were viewed 62 million times in one month. |
| 1:13.6 | 62 million in one month. |
| 1:18.6 | In this episode, we're going to dive deep into this world. |
| 1:23.6 | Who are the men committing these crimes? |
| 1:26.6 | Who's viewing this abuse? |
| 1:29.6 | And who's joining in? |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. The |
| 1:47.0 | The On the 25th of October 2011, a YouTube account appeared online under the username Mr. Sleepy People. |
| 2:22.6 | The user started to upload videos that were weird and disturbing. A male who didn't reveal his face |
| 2:30.4 | would open the eyes of women who looked as though they were sleeping. He'd lift up their |
| 2:36.9 | eyelids to check if they were fully asleep. In all of the videos, none of the women ever woke up. |
| 2:46.3 | But the more videos he started uploading, the more disturbing they became. |
| 2:54.3 | He started to lick the woman's eyeballs. |
| 3:00.7 | The titles of the videos gave no context to the content, but they were sexualised. |
| 3:11.4 | Some of the titles included Bree's Sexy Eyes Part 2 and Quick Eye Check, as well as Bree, drunk and passed out, |
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