The episode happened in Bucaramanga, the young university student recorded the event and the subject was expelled from the platform. “Thank you for letting me touch your little leg,” the man said.
Colombia News.
For a few days, the scandalous case in which a 20-year-old university student reported that she ended up being a victim of sexual harassment has gone viral. The person in charge?, the driver of a digital transport platform in the city of Bucaramanga.
The events occurred last Sunday, March 13, when the young woman requested the transportation service through a recognized application.
He touched her and grabbed her leg
After knowing the video in which the victim told what happened, gave an interview to the local media Vanguardia.
Explaining that he had requested the service in a sector known as Conucos, a place where he was celebrating a friend’s birthday and was on his way to his home in the Kennedy neighborhood, north of Bucaramanga.
“I asked for the car at 11:40 pm, but they were asking me for a very high rate for the trip, so I decided to wait a bit until I found a driver who offered me a lower rate,” he told the newspaper.
She assured that finally a driver offered 13 thousand pesos for the trip, she agreed.
He told the media that the driver «He gave me a lower price compared to the others, that’s why I accepted it«.
She says that since the man came to pick her up “he opened the front door for me, I always get in the back unless they tell me that for police reasons I should go forward. He started talking to me, asking me if I had a boyfriend… He said I had very nice legs. I started to feel uncomfortable, I wrote to my friends so they would know where she was, in case something happened to me«.
Everything got worse in the middle of the trip
Well, the man who in the application calls himself Alfonso began to touch his left kneeshe was fearful and very afraid.
He said that the subject asked him if he could touch his legs, he was blocked and could not answer because of fear. “I got a lump in my throat, I couldn’t speak. On the side of Asilo San Rafael, it began to slow down, there is a very dark part there, I felt that it was going to stop.
He told Vanguardia that “later on he started to grab my leg and told me that when he touched me I felt a lot of tickling in my pants, I took my cell phone and started to hide that I was writing but I was recording, when he saw that I had the cell phone, he stopped touch me. I was really in shock.”
He said he was scared to tell the subject to stop, he felt he would get aggressive and it would be worse. In the middle of the journey he wrote to her friends and her mother.
Fear of retaliation
When he got home, he paid for the service and got out quickly: “I’m afraid to tell my mom, not because she’s going to judge me, but because I know it’s going to be very hard for her. She did not know what to do, one does not know how to react in those moments, but I do not want anyone else to go through the same thing », she published on her networks and replied to the medium.
She assured that during that night she could not fall asleep, the next day at the university they called her from an unidentified number, she answered and it was the same man.
- «I thought it was cheeky and I couldn’t stand it, I told him not to call me, not to look for me, that I didn’t want anything with him. Please, if you see it, do not accept it, always send the location, check that the license plates match those of the application.
The video of the case:
A 20-year-old girl denounced through social networks that an InDriver driver improperly touched her while providing the transportation service.#sup #This is how it happened #News https://t.co/GobrpVYeNk pic.twitter.com/hmntuVRB6C
– Q’hubo Bucaramanga (@qhubobga) March 16, 2022
The driver was banned from the App
From the platform They contacted the young woman and told her that the driver had already been reported.
Assuring that he was expelled and also offered the victim free psychological therapy.
Young denounced the harassment he suffered by a driver of a transport platform in Bucaramanga.
The 20-year-old victim managed to record the stalker and indicated that for fear of being attacked, she did not confront the man https://t.co/tZsBxdBbfv pic.twitter.com/tm2k0nIzcG
– News Caracol (@NoticiasCaracol) March 16, 2022
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