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Media Interviews

Gloria’s story and advocacy have been featured in media outlets around the world. Through interviews, articles, and podcasts, she shares her lived experience and insights to raise awareness, inspire prevention, and support survivors.

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28 August 2025

Gloria Masters Exposes New Zealand's Darkest Secrets: Trafficked By Family, Silenced By Elites

In this exclusive Belfast Bapcast interview, Gloria shares her journey from abuse to advocacy, the networks that protected abusers, and how she turned her pain into a global movement.

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18 August 2025

Gloria Masters: Can You Buy Name Suppression After A Child Sexual Abuse Material Conviction?

Sean Plunket talks to Handing the Shame Back CEO Gloria Masters - Can you buy name suppression after a child sexual abuse material conviction?

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12 August 2025

Gloria Masters On Breaking The Silence Around Child Sexual Abuse

Leah Panapa talks to Handing the Shame Back CEO Gloria Masters about breaking the silence around child sexual abuse.

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26 June 2025

How Gloria Masters and Scott Beard found love while helping kids

As far as good matches go, Gloria Masters and Scott Beard, a detective inspector in the New Zealand Police, are a perfect fit. From their shared love of music, dancing, fitness and comedy, to a desire to give back to the community and save vulnerable children.

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20 June 2025

Raised for sale: Gloria Masters on surviving her family’s trafficking ring

Gloria recently joined Matthew Ridge and David Ring on The Brink Podcast to talk about child sexual abuse in NZ, her personal journey, and the Global Hand Sign. A powerful conversation with real impact — don’t miss it.

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13 June 2025

Keeping Kids Safe. Handing the Shame Back. Join the global event. Gloria Masters and Scott Beard

Dani Henderson interviews Gloria and her partner Scott Beard about the Global Hand Sign, the book Keeping Kids Safe, and what adults globally can do to help. What can I as one person do?

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3 June 2025

'Stop giving predators a free pass': Parents urged to stop posting kids' photos

The rise of generative AI could be putting children at risk. Gloria Masters believes the current digital environment has enabled “much more sexualised content” of children to be available to predators. 

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1 June 2025

Top detective Scott Beard and partner Gloria Masters backing hand signal campaign to help prevent CSA

NZ Herald interviews Gloria Masters and her partner, Detective Inspector Scott Beard, on the Global Hand Sign — a 3-step gesture used by children under 16 to signal they are unsafe and being sexually abused.

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20 May 2025

CULT 764 & Global Networks: CSA Survivor Gloria Masters - AU 373

Shaun gets Gloria back on the podcast to discuss the growing numbers of survivors who have experienced the Cults 764 and Two by Two’s. Across the world, more and more survivors are finding their voices and this leads to attention on these heinous crimes being exposed.

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29 April 2025

Radio interview with MoreFM Rodney on Keeping Kids Safe

Being interviewed by Nick on MoreFM Rodney was empowering. Being able to discuss the book, Keeping Kids Safe, which is now in every school in NZ, honouring. It is time for the world to join the campaign to educate and resource our children on how to Keep Safe.

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21 April 2025

From Trauma to Grace: Gloria Masters on Surviving Child Trafficking, Angelic Guidance & Healing

Gloria Masters shares her harrowing journey of surviving one of the worst recorded cases of child sex trafficking and abuse. From her earliest memories of darkness, Gloria found light through angelic guidance and an unshakable spiritual connection.

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8 April 2025

Global generosity powers Kiwi advocate’s crusade to safeguard New Zealand kids

Keeping Kids Safe: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Others is being distributed nationwide, free of charge to over 2500 schools, thanks to its author, survivor-advocate Gloria Masters, and the generosity of an overseas benefactor. 

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27 March 2025

Niall Boylan talks to Gloria Masters about her harrowing human trafficking story

All the way from Dublin, Ireland's Classic Hits Radio interview Gloria to talk about her story, and what she now does supporting survivors and helping prevent abuse occurring to the next generation.

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12 February 2025

Young Girl SEX TRAFFICKED By HER FAMILY - Survivor EXPOSES the TRUTH! | Gloria Masters

The host, Alex, introduces the interview: “On today's episode, we welcome Gloria Masters, a woman who has walked through the valley of darkness and emerged with a torch in hand, lighting the way for others still trapped in the abyss. Her story is not merely one of survival, but of profound spiritual awakening, an alchemy that turns the heaviest pain into the lightest truth.”

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7 February 2025

The Elite Child Trafficking Ring They Want Hidden | Survivor Exposes Dark World of Child Trafficking

In this powerful and deeply moving interview, survivor and global advocate Gloria Masters breaks decades of silence to expose the horrific reality of organised child trafficking. From family homes to secret society ceremonies, she reveals how trafficking networks operated through every level of society in 1960s-70s New Zealand.

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23 January 2025

Wag Tales #41: Gloria Masters, a survivor's mission to keep kids safe

The discussion covers many ways to identify, support, and help keep kids safe. Gloria’s book Keeping Kids Safe is featured, alongside practical tips for parents and teachers. This strategy-filled interview is a valuable resource for anyone dedicated to children's safety.

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