Giulio Ferrari
CSA SURVIVOR | FORENSIC JOURNALIST using BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE to catch serial predators | Biohacker | Cult Expert
Growing up in a cult skews our every notion of reality. The reality I was taught was one of high mysticism, re-incarnation as punishment, good and evil spirits which were impossible to discern. While I thought I was being groomed to become the country's most powerful medium, I was being sexually abused by my mentor. At 17 I broke out of the psychological chains that kept me in the cult. It took me 20 years to muster the courage to expose the truth to the world. I had to start by the person who had been my abuser's right-hand for the last 20 years: my mother.
Today we are 80+ Victims of Maury Rodrigues da Cruz, who died awaiting for trial.
Using my experience as a survivor and extensive research in forensic psychology (Hare, Eckman, Newmann, Paulhus, etc), I created a protocol to identify, expose and bring to justice serial abusers. Having started alone, today I count with a team of volunteer investigators, ranging from retired NSA and CIA agents to PhDs in Artificial Intelligence and Forensic Psychology.
I've worked in collaboration with networks, such as Globo TV in Brazil, producing expository content, including the exposé on "Conversa com Bial" that led to the prison of John of God.
While Every single dossier we've handed to authorities has become an indictment, not everything gets published. In 2019 we were published on the cover of Brazil's largest magazines, Veja and IstoÉ, and international news agencies such as Metropoles and Vice. Three of my published articles resulted in lawsuits by the Catholic Church - all to try to censor material I published, all in vain - which I proudly wear as badges of honor.
Justice doesn't exist. The only true justice would be for survivors to go back in time and never have been abused in the first place. Our work is not to seek justice, but to educate in order to prevent. To do so, we use a true hybrid of journalism, activism and science.
In business, I've brought a new level of service to the pet industry and retail in general. I got into pet retail in 2001 and in 2010, after being the Chief Marketing Officer for a national chain burned me out of corporate America, I decided it was time to open my own store, where everything would be healthy for the animals - no gimmics. I couldn't deal with the hypocrisy of the industry, marketing for humans without a care for the well-being of the animals.
Today we are the most awarded pet store in North Texas. The Paw Depot has been chosen best pet store in DFW and won several awards of excellence.
