Katherine Ryan particulars daughter, 14, being ‘sexually harassed’ by older males
atherine Ryan has shared her fury on-line after her 14-year-old daughter, Violet, was sexually harassed in London.
The comic mentioned she was “p***ed off” as a result of the teenager and her cousin Lily had been harassed “everywhere they went” by “grown men” within the capital on a time out.
Recalling the incidents within the newest episode of her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, she started: “They’ve been out in the day; they’ve been out on the train just doing very wholesome activities.
“Shopping, going to a theme park, doing this and that. And everywhere they go, every day, they have been sexually harassed by grown men.
“Violet is 14, her cousin is 16, but the 16-year-old doesn’t look 25. She looks 16, 17,” she continued.
“There’s no mistaking Violet’s age. She’s 14, she has braces on her teeth. Anyone looking at these girls, no one is mistaking them for being adult women.
“Maybe someone might hope that Lily’s 18, nevertheless, you’re a sick freak and you shouldn’t be chatting to teenage girls the way you are.”
The TV star then defined that whereas she didn’t wish to go into element in regards to the interactions, she wished listeners to concentrate on what is going on.
She added: “I won’t go into all the incidents because I want to talk about Violet less and less publicly because I do think she’s entitled to privacy, but I’ll only tell you the bits she put on her own Snapchat because she’s posted that now, it’s for public consumption.”
Detailing one incident, Ryan mentioned man began filming the teenagers whereas they travelled on the London Underground.
She recalled: “There was a man in the middle of the day filming them on the underground. Just a man on his own who got his phone out and started filming these girls sat opposite them.”
Going on to share one other, the Netflix star mentioned the pair went into a store in Camden the place an worker got here out from behind the counter and put his arm round Lily then requested her age.
The comic mentioned: “She says, ‘I’m 16,’ and he asks how long she’s in town for and tries to put his number in her phone.”
Sharing her outrage, Ryan continued: “These men are trying to put me in jail because they better hope I won’t be around [next time]. I’ve been training for this my whole life.
“I’m seeing it now in real-time with a teenager and I don’t know exactly how to handle it,” she mentioned, including that she discovered it “very, very scary”.
The Duchess star additionally admitted that whereas she usually publicly criticises older celebrities for relationship youthful ladies, she takes problem with grown males harassing and attempting to “chat up” underage ladies very severely.
She concluded: “All my little playful jokes about Leonard DiCaprio – that’s for fun. That’s me taking down a very, very high status 50-year-old celebrity for dating models above the age of 18, but I still think it’s gross.”