Woman Lures Boys into Public Bathroom to SA Them, Secretly Recorded for Her Husband to Edit

**Stephanie Soo** (0:02)
There is no way to anticipate a stomach drop moment. Even when you're on a rollercoaster, I mean I guess you can anticipate it, but you can't really time it exactly, nor can you prevent it just because you know it's coming. I feel like there have been times on rollercoasters where you think if you clench as hard as possible, you're not going to feel it, but you're going to. That stomach drop feeling, you're going to feel it. It's because your abdominal organs are not bolted to your skeleton. They're essentially in place thanks to gravity. But when you're at the top of a rollercoaster plunging downward, you enter near freefall. The seat stops pushing you up, and for a second or two, you are effectively weightless. So that's why your stomach feels like it's dropping, because it kind of is. This is a very oversimplified explanation that I'm sure some doctor out there is going to be upset about, but that same feeling, interestingly, happens when you receive really bad, dreaded news that you were not expecting. Even if you're expecting some bad news, but it's not the exact kind that you're expecting, your stomach could still have that dropping feeling. I mean, technically, it's weird, because there's no physical movement in the body, but somehow your brain classifies something as a threat, and within seconds, you enter fight or flight mode, which means blood is yanked from your gut, adrenaline, cortisol, they divert the blood from the digestive tract to your heart, your brain, and your limb muscles. Basically, when you enter fight or flight, your system has evolved to handle physical threats by shutting down digestion. And it's actually the stillness of your stomach. So when you are in a normal mode, your stomach, there's constant rhythm that you may not even consciously notice because you're constantly digesting. But when you have that instant moment of maybe it lasts even a fraction of a second, everything stills in your stomach. And it's because we were evolved that we would shut down digestion because if you were to sprint away from imminent danger, digesting lunch is a luxury that fleeing animals cannot afford. And that stillness feels like a stomach drop. July 20th, 2026 So this year, body cam footage is uploaded to YouTube. And it's not like one of those deep dive cases. It's more so one of those channels that uploads body cam footage without adding in much commentary. So they're not also simultaneously going to the FOIA like a lot of really good channels do. They just kind of upload the footage, make some small comments, but that's about it. The body cam footage includes a young woman being arrested. She's quite hysterical about her arrest.
She acts like this is complete and utter nonsense. It's coming as a shock to her. As if there is not video the police have found of her essaying a 13 year old boy in a public restroom that she recorded.
And then handed it off to her husband, who then edited the video. Why do you need to edit this video? I mean, first of all, why do you have this video? But why do you need to edit the video? But she's almost shocked that the police are putting her in handcuffs. That body cam footage does not gain a lot of attention. It's short. There's not a lot of publicly available information out there. And aside from her very bizarre shock, and aside from that, there's not much else to the footage that you can dive deeper into. At least that's what people thought. A few months later, we were on a call with a girl named Talia in what we thought would be completely unrelated matters. Turns out it wasn't. She said, she was explaining to us that she was watching one of our videos. And she says, quote, not exactly sure the title, but it was a sit down interview with a woman about a similar situation about her mom and her mom's boyfriend. I remember watching it. And it really helped me just to be able to have conversations with even my therapist. It takes a moment. And then she says, I think the title of the episode was, her parents were pedophiles? That freefall moment is made even worse when the connection between the body cam footage, without much detail of this woman and this 13 year old boy in the videos recorded in the public restroom, when all of that and Talia's story start merging together, and they're all involved. This is the case of John and Brianna Nethers. And why the hell it took so long to catch them?
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And like any other case, until someone is proven guilty in the court of law, they are innocent until proven guilty. So with that being said, let's begin. We get an overwhelming amount of emails in a single day, which I think is a huge privilege for us to have that many people trust us with what's happening in their lives. But with every email that the RM team goes through, we do take a lot of time to figure out ways to be of use, if we are even of use to people, to respond and to also vet the information. One recent email that we've received reads in part, this might come as a strange email. Talia, the author of the email, says, I was sexually abused for about 5-6 years as a child, from when I was around 6-7 years old to up until I was about 12 years old, by my mother's boyfriend at the time. She was not aware and I was too scared to tell her until we were completely out of the situation. She says that she and her mother initially went to the police, made a report, that case is dropped. And then nothing happens for 8-9 years. So Talia is early 20s now. Nothing happens, there's nothing being done, nothing being investigated until almost a decade later. Now it's been 8-9 years, add a few years on top of that, a detective picks up the case and then it gets dropped again. Until three months before this email is sent. Out of nowhere, another detective calls Talia asking if she's going to be willing to testify against the man who abused her. But there was no investigation done into her abuse. And he's not even charged with anything that had to do with Talia, which means, what else did he do? And who else did he hurt? Talia's original email to us was not even asking for really anything. She wasn't asking for help. She wasn't asking for trying to get the police involved. She was just saying, your videos helped a lot while I was going through this process and now it seems like there's going to be justice. And we decided that we had to reach out and figure out what's going on. We were given the names of the two individuals in the email, as well as Talia linked some news articles about their arrest. So she told us that she was abused by John Nethers as a child for years. Like she's six to 12 years old. She's abused by this man, repeatedly being essayed by the person who was trying to be her stepdad. Not that she ever saw him as a father figure, but the charges that he has been arrested for are not those crimes. So the first thing we did is a precursory search into the two names we were given. The first news article about them is a local news station. Licking County couple indicted for child sex charges after secretly taping minors in restroom. The article reads in part, a Licking County couple was indicted Thursday for CSAM charges after they allegedly taped sexual encounters involving minors in a public restroom. 43-year-old John Nethers and 23-year-old Brianna Nethers were arrested when Newark police served a search warrant in connection with a rape and CSAM investigation. John Nethers is who Talia named in the email. But who the hell is Brianna Nethers? I mean, clearly it's his wife. They're married, but is that all? According to our online research, Brianna Nethers, the wife, would hide a camera on her purse, like a button camera. It looks like a button. Lure a 13-year-old boy into the public restroom where they would, quote, engage in sexual activity. The whole thing is being recorded by a hidden camera in her purse. She also apparently set up a hidden camera. She would go into the women's restroom. This is without the 13-year-old. She would go into public women's restrooms and throw her purse on the dirty bathroom floor so that it can see up the stalls next to her and record whoever is in there. It appears the target were girls, minors. The criminal complaint reads that some of the videos they found, quote, one video depicts defendant Brianna entering public restroom in Newark and setting up a hidden camera hidden on her purse. Defendant Brianna then goes and finds a young male, which she brings to the bathroom and does something sexual with him. NPD was able to identify the male in the video and he was a 13-year-old juvenile. The other video shows defendant Brianna placing the hidden camera on her purse on the floor in a public restroom. The video shows her manipulating the camera to view the stall besides her. The video is 13 minutes in length and shows several women using the bathroom. Several of the people depicted are prepubescent females depicted in a state of nudity. Then John, the husband, would take the footage from the hidden cameras and then he would edit them on his laptop, like he's creating some sort of sick and twisted movie. That is what John and Brianna Nethers get arrested for. When Talia has spent the past decade trying to get the police to open an investigation into John Nethers, and now they want her to potentially testify against him, but why didn't the police investigate him sooner? I started looking into the two social media accounts, one for John Nethers and for Brianna Nethers, although they have different social media handles. Brianna Nethers was an OF model. Her OnlyFans account seems to have been taken down since her arrest, but I did go through her ex-account, and it is a lot of what you would imagine, just videos of her promoting her OnlyFans account. I mean, logistically speaking, there are some videos I don't quite understand. Like, okay, so there are videos from her ex-account, and John Nethers' TikTok, where it seems like both of them are very much into the gym life. They're gym buffs. They go and they work out in what appears to be a real public gym, or at least one of those membership gyms. Fitness, Equinox, whatever have you, right? It doesn't seem to be a private gym. I'm like looking at all the corners. It doesn't look like a gym in someone's garage. It doesn't look like a gym in someone's basement. It looks like a public gym. But Brianna is just doing barbell squats with a small, tiny sports bra and a thong.