“This is a great example of the police & public working together to stop crime”

The words of Detective Inspector Karl Ward of Greater Manchester Police after a group of men interrupted a suspected rape of a 17-year-old girl in a car park in Ashton Under Lyne earlier…

They say that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

When you’re a victim of sexual violence, the journey towards getting justice is long, hard, emotional, embarrassing, and unfortunately in so many cases, fruitless.

It’s been just over year since actress Alyssa Milano posted on Twitter: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” That came just a few days after stories by The New York Times and New Yorker about allegations of sexual…