Archive for December, 2006

I found the strength in my daughter’s eyes

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Winnie, Ontario Canada
     I worked as a med lab assistant in a doctors office.  It is a small practice.  My boss, the doctor, has been sexually harassing me for almost 3 years.  It started with comments on my body, and then whispers in my ear about what he would like to do to me.  I [...]

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I don’t know what to do anymore

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Kim, Massachusetts 
     It started with the interoffice IM system. I got IM’s from a kid that said I was the woman of his dreams and I was beautiful. I told him I have a boyfriend and I wasn’t looking for anyone there.  I kept turning all conversation to work.  He continued to IM me and [...]

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I told him to leave me alone

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Krystal, South Carolina
     This was my first job and I was so excited to work there.  I had made so many new friends, but one of the guys that worked there that I had made friends with kept saying perverted things to me, such as asking me if I liked him and wanted to have sex [...]

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Now I can’t walk in my own neighborhood

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Rachel, Delaware
     I was 12 years old, and was walking over to a girlfriends house 7 blocks down from me.
     On my way a Jeep thing like car pulled over next to me.  I gave the man a nervous smile and walked on.  In retrospect I think that that was a huge mistake! He starts [...]

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I was scared, so I kept it a secret

Friday, December 8th, 2006

LaRhetta, NY
     When I was at school, a boy kept hitting my bottom, and touching and mocking me in a bad way.   I was scared, so I kept it a secret, yet my friends and the boy’s friends knew.    
     The boy made a mistake of telling the janitor I was “sexy,” and the janitor told [...]

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Our boss told us that if we said anything, bad things would happen to us

Friday, December 8th, 2006

     I worked at a small business with 3 men and 2 other females.  The sexual harassment started almost immediately.  It started with comments about our bodies, what they would like to do to us, and always asking what size our bra’s were.  The discusting comments and body brushes were more than I could take. 
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