Twenty-year-old Laura Duncliffe was just like any of us on a night out last weekend.
She was with her friends enjoying the Jazz Festival in Cork when she decided to leave the bar early to get some food.
She headed out into the street with two other friends and what she experienced next is extremely frightening.
“I think the last time I put up a Facebook status was 2012, but I’m so genuinely angry and upset that I feel compelled to do so,” she wrote on Facebook, before setting the scene of her night out with friends.
“We walked passed a big group of men in their 30s outside Four Star Pizza who jeered and whistled as we walked past, which as most girls know, is quite normal behaviour from drunk and disorderly males on a night out, so we took no notice and walked on past them.”
“I could have been coming from a teenage disco. He came at me from behind and had no idea what age I am” pic.twitter.com/NPYuUpWS6A
— Today FM (@todayfm) October 29, 2015
“Suddenly, I felt one of the men come right up behind me and pull my skirt up around me. All his group of friends obviously jeered him on and praised him as if that was an act he should be proud of.
“I stood there in genuine shock and disbelief that a man in his thirties would actually do this to a 20-year-old woman,” she continued.
Her Facebook post in full reads:
Laura’s Facebook status (click to enlarge)
Her post has been shared numerous times on Facebook since she posted it this week, and speaking to the Anton Savage Show on Today FM on Thursday morning, Laura revealed she was still in shock by how many people had commented to say they had had a similar experience.
You can listen to her full interview and people’s responses to her story on the Anton Savage Show here.
