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School pupils tell how they are victims of sexual harassment every day

Source: Lucy Young

Do you as teenage girls feel safe walking around in London? This was the question put in a workshop to eight Year 9 and Year 10 girls, aged 13 to 15, who go to school in south London — and the responses were immediate and forceful.

Sexual harassment is a daily occurrence for me,” one girl said. “Boys say weird things that make you feel very uncomfortable,” a second girl added. “This guy in my year who I don’t even fancy had this thing about how he wanted to sleep with me and he told everyone he had a dream about having sex with me, and now I don’t ever want to be in the same room as him.”

A third girl said: “One boy told me, ‘when we’re in bed, I’m going to

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