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Sexual assault and rape
Until very recently the hardest thing I had to deal with in my life was being sexually assaulted on the way home after celebrating their birthday. Go to this was a last-minute impulse event I knew about it but wasn’t going to go then I changed my mind on the day. The night was a fun one we had a few drinks and danced. Then like many other times, I headed to the cities train station to wait for the train home in the morning.
Something that I had done lots of times before when I had gone to Manchester, but in Birmingham, they lock the station doors till about 6 am when the trains start running, but I got there and there were half a dozen other people in the doorway sitting or lying down and to one side there were some station staff working. So I felt safe and joined them I also knew that there was CCTV in the area so I lay down and waited for my train.
It was not long after this that I saw someone walk over and sit down. I thought nothing of this as he looked normal like anyone else there. I decided to close my eyes for 5 minutes while I waited till my train home, then the next thing that happened was feeling that person laying down behind me with his hand in my knickers and thrusting up against me. Shocked by this I froze and didn’t know what to do.
The station staff had looked over at the right moment in time and saw him doing this and ran over to the…