A, Aged 14
2021
I was in a classroom because I was having a lesson and a boy sits right next to me and gets close. I was thinking he probably wants to be friendly but as soon as he started touching my thighs and trying to touch my boobs in front of the teacher I knew it wasn’t right.
Nandi, aged 13 2019 I had come back from school i was wearing my PE kit i decided i wanted Oreos. Tesco on Central Drive was only about an eight minute walk from my house. I’m walking and I pass under the bridge about to turn left on Middle Street, but there’s one boy around 15-17years...
Helen, late 20s 2014 was walking alone in the afternoon. It was a nice sunny day in early summer, I felt safe at the time. I was ambushed by two men in their late 30s early 40s who ran right up to me asking me my name and shouting sexual harassment type things in my face. They’d blocked...
2021, aged 32 I was out with friends for drinks and started to feel really unwell, thankfully I was able to get a taxi home quickly soon after I started to feel ill but didn’t remember getting in. I woke up in the morning feeling completely out of it and struggling to stay awake, I...
1988 Aged 15 I went into town to watch Rattle and Hum at the ABC cinema. I got there early on the bus so was walking along Church St quite slowly, on my own, killing a bit of time. A youngish man came up to me, quite agitated, and asked if I’d have sex with him. I was so shocked...
2002 C, aged 24 I was working in a shop. When I went out onto the shop floor to tidy up, a group of drunk men came in and started making sexual comments to me and about me. As I turned to go back behind the counter one of them grabbed my vagina from behind, putting his hand right between...
2006 Aged 25 Leaving a night club two men harassed us to go home with them. We said no and jumped into a taxi. Then one man got in the front and the other tried to open the back door. We told the taxi driver we don’t know them. So he asked them to get out. The taxi driver unlocked the...
2019 Aged 32 Stood at the bar and a man put his hand down my top and grabbed my breast. My partner informed the door staff and he was just asked to leave. The following day we did report it to the company but they just said “we will follow it up with door staff”. We have never returned to...
2019 Aged 29 I was dancing with my friends when all of a sudden a felt someone’s hand touch me between my legs from behind. When I turned around I saw a guy walking off and his friend came over. He said, ‘sorry he’s drunk.’ I replied ‘so that makes it ok for him to touch me?’ His friend...
2012 CS, aged 11
I was held down and raped at knifepoint.
2012 Aged 35 As I walked down the stairs in a bar a younger man passed me, walking up the stairs. As he passed me, he put his hand straight up my skirt and touch my vagina quite forcefully. My skirt wasnt excessively short, only slightly above the knee. Even if it had been shorter, I have...
2016, H, Aged 21
I was touched up in public against my will on my chest and down below by my now ex thought it would be enjoyable to do it in public. I slapped him in the face for doing then ran into the shop in the Hounds Hill and asked if I could hide till he went away.
1983, Suzanne Pinder, aged 17 I was waiting for a bus about to start a school holiday job at the Wimpy in town, it was about 9am. There is a house that has a large window overlooking the bus stop. I heard a loud banging sound, looked up and there was a man knocking on the window to...
2015 Age 41 I was in a bar with friends and I got talking to a male. He asked if I wanted to get a drink. We went to the bar and we got a drink which he paid for. We sat down at a table and were chatting. He showed me some pictures of his son on Facebook. The next thing I remember I was...
2011 Sam, age 21
I was dubious about a group of lads who were hovering around in the bar, I had my drink on the table, which was only my second, I do not remember anything after I had drunk that, I collapsed in the toilet, luckily I was with safe people who took me home.