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Saturday January 19, 2008

Angry and distraught over sexual harassment

I REFER to “Sexual harassment is not OK” (The Star, Jan 18).

I am so sorry for what the writer had to go through and would like to say that I understand the anger and trauma that she felt since I experienced the same thing last year.

The only difference was that it was at a work place. I also made a police report within 24 hours of the incident, but I am disappointed the attorney general dismissed the case for lack of evidence.

If there is a lack of evidence, why was there a disciplinary meeting held and the perpetrator suspended as a result of the disciplinary meeting?

I have since appointed my own lawyer to take this matter up with the attorney general in Putrajaya.

These perpetrators consider a woman a second class citizen and that they can do whatever they want to any woman who might be unlucky enough to be their victim.

I am thinking of suing the perpetrator and my former employer for defamation for the embarrassment caused by the incident, as all my former colleagues and members of the golf club knew what had happened to me.

Sexual harassment may be a small thing to the perpetrator and anyone who has not experienced it, but it is really traumatic for the victim.

Only the victim and others in the same situation will understand the anger and the trauma suffered by us.

ANOTHER VICTIM,

Subang Jaya.

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