This woman was ‘upskirted’ at a music festival. Her campaign is changing the law.

Gina Martin was at a music festival watching The Killers last summer when two men kept making advances towards her. She repeatedly turned them down. Shortly after, she spotted one of the men looking at a photo of her crotch on his phone.

She had just been “upskirted” — a term that refers to the practice of secretly taking photos or videos under a person’s clothes without consent in an effort to capture a person’s crotch area, underwear, and genitals.

When Martin, 27, reported the men to police at the festival, she was told there wasn’t much they could do; that if she “hadn’t have been wearing knickers it would have been a different story.” The police officers deleted the photo from the man’s phone and told Martin to enjoy the rest of her night.  Read more…

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