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Sexually harassed 

1981 Aged 7  My mum and I used to walk down a back alley to get from where Burtons Biscuits is to my junior school, a path walked by lots of families and school children. On this particular afternoon, I ran ahead a little where a high school male with a group of friends grabbed me, held...

Spiked

2021 L, aged 34 In a bar in a group of three. We put our drinks on a shelf which was on the edge of a balcony near the front door. I had turned to my friends and said I would wait with the drinks so they could have a dance. As I turned back to the drinks a man was leaning over and putting...

Propositioned

2019 Aged 52

A couple of times I got approached for business as if I was a prostitute by men and women while waiting at Palatine Road and Central Drive bus stop

Catcalled

2021 Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged 42 

I walked along the street at 12 noon on a Monday, and a car pulled up alongside me and a man leaned out and shouted “Give us a blowie!” 

Harassed

2021Aged 16

A man aged 60+ sat as close as he could to my granddaughter (16 y/o) at a bus-stop and discussed virtual sites where people have virtual sex and encouraging her to get on there.

Catcalled

2004 B, aged 21

Walking home from the shops heavily pregnant, a man slowed down his truck, leaned out the window and heckled me shouting, “Oi love, yes you, show us your tits”. I stood dumbfounded and then gave him the finger.

Indecent exposure

1994 B, aged 11 On the way home from school, a man use to watch my friends and I. Sometimes he would knock on the window, other times he would just stand there. A couple of months went by and he started wearing no top and then one time he had his penis in his hand and was touching himself...

Verbally abused

1999 B, age 16

I went to a local shop and was asked by the man behind the counter if I wanted to sit on his fingers and swivel. I didn’t know what to say at the time and my friends just laughed. I didn’t go in the shop again.

Cornered

1995 B, aged 12 I was on the park with boys who I went to school with and who I thought were my friends. They cornered me in a metal tube on the park and tried to lift my top up and touch me. I managed to kick one and I ran all the way home. I didn’t tell anyone as I didnt want to...

Verbally abused

1997 B, aged 14 My friends and I use to hang around the front of the school and the postman used to come on the school grounds around the same time of first break every day. Over about a month he would chat to us, ask us questions which progressively got more personal. Then he started to...