Posted below is an article from the Milton Keynes Citizen, a tragic story about two young girls who have now said that they are "petrified and too scared to travel on buses for fear a similar incident happens again"
"TWO teenage girls have been left sickened and traumatised after a man exposed himself to them at a bus stop.
Gemma Titchmarsh, 18 and her 17-year-old sister Georgina, were sitting at a bus stop close to the Agora Shopping Centre in Wolverton at around 7pm last Monday when the man approached them, exposed himself and then started touching himself inappropriately.
Gemma said: “We were sat chatting and the guy must have walked past a few times in the half an hour or so we were there. You don’t really pay attention when you’re chatting as you’re in your own little world.
“All of a sudden I heard him next to me breathing heavily and as I turned to my right it was right in my eyeline. I instantly felt sick and I got an awful feeling in my stomach. It was horrible. I genuinely thought I was going to be sick.”
Gemma said she looked up at the man and made eye contact but was too scared to move for fear he would attack her or her sister."
Please read the rest of the artical here: http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/sisters_rape_fear_after_bus_stop_flasher_shock_1_3567428
Even though the girls were not physically attacked, the fear of being in a situation where an attack was possible, has traumatised both of them, and has made such an impact that it could affect the rest of their lives!
It makes you think... what if? What if, the girls knew how to defend themselves in an attack situation, no matter of their opponents size or strength? I believe that it isn't just the man that has terrified them, but the sudden realisation that if he did attack they have no idea what to do!
At Evade, we teach incredible self-defence techniques that are designed to work against a larger and much stronger opponent. Not to mention a new program coming soon (Empowering Women), which through years of studies, takes women through the methods that an attacker would follow and adapted the techniques to suit those situations.
What if those girls had the confidence to know that if an attack occurred, they would be ok? Maybe they wouldn't be scared to walk down the street alone.
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