Research conducted by children’s charity Plan International UK discovered that more than a third of girls in the UK have received unwanted sexual attention while wearing their school uniform in public.
Their experiences included being groped, stared at, cat-called, wolf-whistled and hearing sexual comments.
One in eight girls said their first experience of unwanted sexual attention or contact in public had occurred when they were 12 or younger.
Plan International UK, which surveyed 1,004 girls aged 14 to 21, found that one in seven had been followed while in school uniform. Eight per cent had been filmed or photographed by a stranger without their permission or someone had taken a photograph up their school skirt.
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