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Groomed

Groomed

L, 17, 2016 A close friend who knew that I was vulnerable emotionally used that against me. He knew that I didn’t want to do any of the things that were done. He made me feel like my resistance was being unkind. These things happened on the sports field and his home. The last time...

Sexual Abuse/ Stalking/ Grooming/ Domestic Abuse

JS aged 15-35 1998-2017 When I was 15 I went to a house party. This was a friend of a friend, a group of other kids my age drinking cheap cider as was quite typical in the ’90s. Then a man arrived. I’d never met him before, he was introduced as a neighbour and he, oddly...

Attempted Grooming

RK, aged 16 2009 My friend and I would always order a takeaway from a Church Street takeaway (close to the number 3 pub) as it wasn’t far from my house and we would walk down to pick it up. We were there once a week at least for a few weeks, the staff there were always friendly and...

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.

Groomed

2000 Jen, Aged 13/14 

A 28-year-old man who worked at the Pleasure Beach took advantage of a desperately lonely teenager.