26, 2018 After a night out I was walking home,and on the phone to my boyfriend at the time. I got to the traffic lights on union st across from the court building and decided my shoes were hurting and I needed to take them off. I was sorting this out myself and a man in his 20s approached...
Age 16, 2003 When I was 16 I got a job waitressing in a pub. My mum had worked there, my aunt still worked there. The chef was a man in his late 40s I think. He would make sexualised comments to me all the time and made me incredibly uneasy and uncomfortable. I didn’t know how to respond...
Samantha, 5, 1983 We moved to Macclesfield and that’s when I was abused by the boyfriend of my nan, it went on for 2 years and when he was found out, he disappeared (nan could’ve prevented it – she knew he’d already hurt my cousin but she got too old for him and my arrival in the...
Samantha, 41, 2019 Sexually assaulted or possibly raped by a neighbour – didn’t report, we’d been drinking together – it was Christmas and I remember him kissing me and saying no I can’t but then everything is blank and I can’t remember anything at all until I woke naked in...
SD, Age 19, Dec 1996
New Year’s Eve and we are counting down – someone grabbed my crotch.
SD, age 24, 2001
Grabbed in the crotch in a club.
Pixi
I have been assaulted many times in varies degrees of seriousness
Jade, 14, 2004 I was groomed by a friends dad, he would be explicit in how he spoke to me and my friend. He forced himself upon me after weeks of grooming me and making me feel uncomfortable with things he would say. Multiple more women have come forward to me after I reported it (and...
Jade, 17, 2007 I was set up on a date with an older man (30s), he was a police officer so I thought I was safe. He took me for a meal at a restaurant. Then back to my friends boyfriends (who was also older) for some quiet drinks. He raped me after I told him no, and asked him to stop...
Jade, 7, 1997
I was sexually abused for months then raped age 7.
He was a babysitter. A trusted friend of my mum’s.
20, 2010
Hit it off with a guy who was a friend of a friend on a night out and went back to his flat.
When I got there I told him that I’d had too much to drink, but that did not stop him. He had sex with me when I wanted him to stop.
L, 18, 2016 – 2017 A mature student on my course, who was part of my friendship group continually sexually harassed and groped/assaulted me. He knew that I had severe anxiety and couldn’t speak or move properly when these things happened. I had explained this to him and...
22, July 2024
Man outside the bar sat next to me on the street pulled my top down and grabbed my boobs. I tried to push him off me but he wouldn’t let go and was laughing while I tried to get him off. No one else around tried to help.
Hand up skirt on a night out. Spiked while on a night out. Being touched without permission. All separate occasions and have been touched without permission more times than I can count.
23/24, December 05 Work Xmas party… Chatting to a work colleague’s friend who had come as his plus 1. Plied with drinks, threw up on myself but he still took me to his hotel where we slept together. I’m still unsure how it happened but I just remember my colleague...