"I was a victim of cocsa"

1) i didn’t realise this until i was YEARS older but i was a victim of cocsa and it has something that has always stuck with me- at five years old, a boy i was playing doctors with at his house demanded i show him my private area or he would tell his mum i made him do it (get his privates out) which is crazy for a year reception to have that much calculation

2) sexually assaulted and raped multiple times at the age of 9 whilst i was homeless by boys i thought were my friends, i would be trapped in boots of cars disguised as ‘hide and seek’ and only let out if i done certain things (sexual favours), i was taken into bushes in the park and forecefully penetrated and then at nine years old they spread around they had ‘sex’ with me which i heard about until secondary school which was literally traumatising because i didn’t feel comfortable enough to tell anyone it was raped; my mum was unaware as she was in a domestically violent relationship at the time and i had no contact with my dad it was horrid and have only recently just told my mum and dad 8 years later

3) got cat called twice in under one minute on 2022 halloween outside my local fish and chip shop dressed as a pirate at 14 years old; one man driving up the high street one down

4) was groped from behind whilst walking up the stairs at school but luckily the boys around me pressured him into a corner i was y11 he was y9

5) got circled by a van when walking back home with a friend multiple times to the point it was evident they was following us, they turned down cul de sacs trying to find us and turned around on closes off the main road to keep eyes on us, it was to the point we were hiding in random people’s front garden hedges/driveways at 13 years old and they followed us back to my nans road which is a very quiet cul de sac in a tiny village and circled down her road looking in the houses with flashlights

Grace, England