It’s been seven months since Lilly Perrott was “groped” and punched by a man during a festival in Sydney’s inner west.
The incident left the 24-year-old with a fractured nose and eye socket, and while her bruises have now faded, her anger has not.
Perrott was with her boyfriend at a festival in Newtown in December when she was “sexually harassed by a drunken bigot”.
“He stuck his hand up my dress and groped me on my ass whilst my boyfriend had his arm wrapped around me,” she wrote in an Instagram post on International Women’s Day in March.
“We spun around and called this man out on his disgustingly inappropriate behaviour… He clearly didn’t like being scalded for his foul behaviour and by a woman who had rejected his sexual advances so he punched me right in the face.”
Perrott has since taken the 27-year-old man to court where he was convicted of aggressive assault with malice intent, but a lack of witnesses meant an indecent assault charge was dropped.
Even so, it was a victory for the designer who last week posted a message of defiance for her social media followers.
It clearly struck a nerve because it was liked more than 62,500 times and attracted close to 2,000 comments.
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Glad he was caught and convicted. I hope he got a severe punishment.
I was at a gig the other week and had some creep run his hand down my back and grab my butt. I yanked his hand hard away from me, digging my fingernails into his skin as I moved his sweaty, disgusting hand away from my person and told him to go away (language was stronger on the night). And, yes, I was slightly frightened, because of things like what happened to Lilly here, that this man would not take my rejection well. Luckily, this time, he moved on.
Don't touch women in crowds, it frightens them and women aren't objects for your amusement. If you do this sort of thing, you aren't a good bloke.