Special Report: Upskirting
The Guilty Feminist
The Spontaneity Shop
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Two years ago, it wasn't even illegal. Today, it could land you two years in prison and a place |
| 0:05.8 | on the sex offenders list. Two years ago, it meant a little outside the shady corners of |
| 0:10.4 | non-consensual porn sites. Today, we have hard data and a growing understanding of what it looks |
| 0:15.5 | like and who is behind it. And this data is hard to believe. We've seen men commit it while on |
| 0:21.1 | their honeymoon teachers commit it while in the classroom and entire technologies designed to help |
| 0:26.8 | them get away with it. The crime? Up scurting. The people responsible for making it one, |
| 0:33.0 | Gina Martin, a survivor campaigner and her allies within the Crown Prosecution Service. |
| 0:37.8 | Today, we are halfway into the UN's 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. |
| 0:43.1 | So to mark the occasion, our journalist Matilda Malanson is heading into Westminster to speak |
| 0:48.2 | to these agents of change. |
| 1:09.9 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Crown Prosecution Service. On my left, I have Shavon Blake, |
| 1:15.6 | who is the Crown Prosecution Service's lead for rape and serious sexual offenses. And to my right, |
| 1:22.2 | I have Gina Martin, who is activist extraordinaire and who's tireless campaigning to lock up her, |
| 1:28.2 | but this is the reason we're sitting here today. I was ever described it that way, I love it. |
| 1:32.1 | Thank you for having me. Would you say that's a fair episode? I think that's right, yeah, |
| 1:35.2 | I'm into that. So until a few years ago, up scurting was not a criminal offense in England and |
| 1:42.6 | Wales. Gina, could you tell us what upscurting is? So upscurting is when someone operates video |
| 1:48.3 | or photographs up your skirt or under your clothing of a part of your body that you would otherwise |
| 1:52.7 | have covered. And at this time, Shavon, was there any legal recourse for people who experienced that |
| 1:59.9 | violation? There was some legal recourse. There were two offenses that, depending on the circumstances, |
| 2:06.8 | could be used in those situations. The one is a very old common law offense known as outrage |
| 2:13.3 | in public decency. And the other was section 67 of the Sexual Offenses Act, which dealt with |
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