Young mother exposes ‘preggophile’ who 'masqueraded as a woman' (2024)

A mother of twins has revealed how she confronted a 'preggophile' creep who masqueradedas a pregnant woman in order to stealpictures of expecting mothers' bulging bellies for a fetish site.

The Australian Multiple BirthAssociationand Canadian and NZ groups issued a warningrecently after discovering a bogus user known as 'Afina Petrescu' had infiltrated their private online groups.

UK woman Cerys Rumsey, 24, from Newport, South Wales, confronted the rogue on Facebook earlier this month.

She said he revealed his exotic 'Afina' identity was a fake used to infiltrate pregnancy groups because he 'loved' pregnant women - and alleged his real name was Paul.

'I'm off to b*** my pregnant wife now huba huba,' Afina told Ms Rumsey, who runs the popular 'Anything goes with crazy mothers of multiples' chat group.

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Ms Rumsey said the vagrant was tripped up by her group's strict screening process. It only took a quick 'reverse image' Google search for her to twig Afina was fake.

'All of these accounts created by Paul... were getting exactly what they wanted by fooling many women who are mothers to multiples,' Ms Rumsey said.

'The photos were taken and posted on ['preggophilia' websites] for other men who share the same fetish.

'There's actually a name for it so they think that's OK'.

In Australia, the Multiple Birth Association (AMBA) sounded the alarm after word spread Afina had been collecting images of women from local pages.

Group spokeswoman Ali Mountifield issued the warning after discovering Afina had joined her Canberra group.

She said many international mothers' groups had joined together in compiling a list of fake profiles in the days since her organisation issued a warning.

'We're all trying to work together to pull these fake profiles out and just say to people "this one's a little bit suss, what do you think?'"

But for most of the profiles, 'it all stems back to Paul,' she said.

In some posts, Afina had used the bump shot of Sydney mother Megan Ireland, 24, in a bid to solicit other women into posting their shots to his preferred fetish site.

'It makes me feel sick,' Ms Ireland, from Baulkham Hills, told Daily Mail Australia earlier this month. 'That's my child in my stomach and people out there are doing really gross things.'

The bogus user would go to extreme lengths to appear as a bona fide local mother, befriending group members to appear more legitimate to Facebook page administrators.

Afina posted pictures of her 'massive twin bump' - really Ms Ireland's photo - in one group but a picture of what appeared to be a different woman in another.

'He (sic) is my final bump shot before I gave birth... Anyone else care to post theirs?' Afina said.

Ms Mountifield said it seemed it was a case of the bigger the bump, the better, for the fetishists.

'I think it's just them knowing that it's a twin or triplet belly that might excite them just a little bit more,' she said.

In a statement earlier this month, Carolyn Lister from the New Zealand Multiple Births Association said she believed 'Afina' was actually a man.

'I was first alerted to something suspicious as he joined two different clubs’ pages at the same time in different parts of the country.

'It was also odd he [posing as a ‘she’] actually asked for photos rather than just posting one. People often share pictures of their own accord rather than being asked.

'There are lots of multiple birth clubs around the world that have been hit.'

'Afina’s profile has been removed – I reported it (to Facebook) – but no doubt others will appear.'

Ms Mountifield reported the profile to authorities.