Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Underground fondle freaks put on notice

NYC Transit Plans Anti-Groping Campaign

NEW YORK (AP) -- People who get groped on crowded subway trains will be encouraged to report it as part of an anti-groping campaign being launched by New York City Transit next month.

The agency expects to distribute 2,000 posters throughout the subway system that tell people who are sexually harassed on trains to report it to an employee or police officer.

A survey released last year by the Manhattan borough president's office on sexual harassment in the subways found that 63 percent of those responding reported they were harassed in some way, whether it was random groping, lewd comments or unwanted advances.

The report was compiled from 1,790 responses collected from New York City straphangers in all five boroughs.

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