2012, aged 18 There was a boy who had been making inappropriate comments for a while and ignored my requests to stop. We sat near each other in class and so it was very awkward and uncomfortable. I left class to go to the toilet and he followed me and cornered me. He then tried to touch...
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...
2022 Aged 26
A man walked to the toilet and grabbed my breast as he walked past. He laughed in my face at my reaction but the bouncers dealt with him extremely well.
2022 Aged 24
A drunk man in his late 20s put hand up my skirt when I was out with my friends.
2022 Aged 25
Whilst on a night out I was consistently touched by a man at the bar. After several advances he put his hand up my skirt. He was removed once the bouncers had been informed but I was left stuck inside as he refused to move away from the outside of the venue.
2012 Natalie McCullagh, Aged 22 I worked at a bar and girls (never the lads) would sometimes be asked to go out and sell jagerbombs to customers on the floor. Most of the younger girls didn’t like to do it due to the creepy men making comments or touching them. I offered to take it...
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...
2022 Aged 14
My 14-year-old daughter and her friends experienced an Asian male in his 40/50s pressing and rubbing his groin on them as they waited in a busy fast food restaurant on the promenade.
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...
1993, Kat, aged 13 I’d come into town after school with friends. I was 13 and wearing my school uniform. We got off the bus at the old bus station and were walking up Talbot Road in a row of three. I was on one of the ends. I looked up and saw a scruffy man coming towards us. I caught his...
1998 Erin, aged 15 I was cleaning the bedrooms at the hotel where I worked and a stag party of around 11 men ran in the room and one of them threw me on the bed and started kissing me and putting his tongue in my mouth. He was trying to rip my tights at the crotch while all the guys stood...
2009 Aged 14
At school – A boy ran up behind me, put his hand between my legs and squeezed.