Richard Medhurst: Another Cog in the Pedo to Political Journalist Pipeline

Kristen Van Houten
4 min readJul 7, 2021

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When I was 18 years old, I became a co-moderator of what would soon be one of the biggest mental health advocacy groups on Facebook. What I didn’t know was that the owner of the group, a man who went by a few names like Papi Chulomin and Richi Medhurst, was hiding how manipulative and abusive he really was. All under the power of “advocacy”.

Here he is, threatening Victim A that wishes to remain anonymous, who was 15 when the illegal relationship started.

I became friends with the two victims three years ago. We clicked instantly, sharing jokes, telling secrets, and venting our frustrations that we couldn’t go to with anyone else. But there was one thing Victim A never wanted to give specific details on, and that was the abusive relationship she was having with Papi Chulomin, aka Richard Medhurst. Shitposter turned political journalist. I had my suspicions given the hints. I would speculate with Angelina, not even knowing she was also dealing with the same thing.

Me speculating with Angelina, the second victim, if it was Richard who was hurting Victim A or not.

Angelina was 17 when he started flirting with her. Sending suggestive messages and joking around about taking her on dates. Mind you while he was grooming a 15 and 17 year old, he was already in his mid 20s at this point.

Screenshots of the suggestive nature in which Richard spoke with Angelina. Including a selfie he took for her.

Richard controlled everything Victim A would do. How long she was on the phone, what she was doing, and how she was doing it. So much so that he made her the manager of his YouTube account with the name “Mrs. Medhurst”.

Emailed invitation to Victim A, to become Richards YouTube manager

Richard would constantly call her. If she wasn’t answering her phone he would repeat call her until she would answer. Once she answered, he kept her on the phone nearly all day.

The spam calls. Ranging from early morning to late at night.

One time, he even sent her money as a form of “apology” for how he was treating her.

The receipt for his way of saying “sorry” to Victim A.

I worked on the Depression Meals: Gone Wild group for three years with Angelina. He owned the group and would sometimes come in to warn people of what would get them removed from the group. A far cry from what people have been saying about him recently.

Here’s proof of him posting in the group he owned and we operated.

He tried keeping her away from telling us what was going on for three years. We would theorize in private if it was Richard because the timeline was too perfect. Hiding his name was the biggest red flag. Recently she told us who it was, she was able to tell us because she finally got away from him. I didn’t want to let it go, given his current social status I knew we needed to come out with it. She agreed, as long as I kept her anonymous. This dredged up the screenshots and the re-hashing of trauma. It reminded Angelina that she went through something very similar with him.

We never thought he’d become relevant and quite honestly didn’t know the specifics of his work, who he is tied to, and who he works for. Now this is making the truth of his work come out. This is calling into question his affiliation with certain news networks.

However, let me make one thing perfectly clear: Victims coming out about political journalists, senators, mayors, and whatever else, isn’t some farce to mess with their money on a CIA level mission to push them back down to earth. We did not and still do not understand the severity of his journalism, his politics, and whatever else he’s done regarding his work.

Richard was a facebook memer when we became connected to him. He wouldn’t have gotten to where he is today if he wasn’t stepping on people and abusing others.

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