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“It really shook both of us up”

In Stories, street harassment | on 08.06.12 | by | Comments ( 1 )

I was 12 years old and walking home from a shop after getting some sweets with my best friend. We were walking past a football field with men in their late teens when they started telling us to come over and perform sexual favours. When we ignored them they started picking up stones and throwing them at us while shouting out insults. It really shook both of us up and after that we never would go there without an adult.

- Anonymous

Location: Guatemala

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alan
08.06.12

No one should have to experience this, at age 12 or at any age. this incident illustrates so clearly the awful after effects of street harassment — because of your experience, you now have to limit your activity in order to cope. I am so sorry you had to go through this experience.

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