I was really happy, brave, active girl with lots of friends in school before I experienced sexual harassment. I live in Mongolia where sexual harassment is not taken seriously.
I was 14 and I took a bus to meet my friends. The bus was quite crowded and I saw one thief going through one grandma’s purse from her back. I was really brave and I said to him to stop that (my heart was beating really fast then). That guy stopped but while he got out of the bus, he slided his hand between my legs…. I was really surprised I couldn’t even talk and stared at him shaking. That guy then smiled back (was the evilest smile I saw). Every people seating at the back of the bus saw the incident but they didn’t say anything. there were old people young people, female, male, kids, but none of them said anything. I got off from the bus and went home running and I cried all night. I was really disappointed to the adults especially.
Since that terrifying incident, I don’t go out as often as I did, I don’t go alone, have stopped being active, have deleted all the strangers, friend’s friend on my social networks. I became a quiet girl. Whenever I go outside, I go with fear all the time.