The rape culture crisis in Britain's elite private schools
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Around the country, girls who have suffered in silence for years at some of England's top schools are finally speaking out about the sexual abuse they've encountered. A stream of hundreds of harrowing stories has emerged. How was this ever allowed to happen? And what can be done to stop it?
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-Sian Griffiths, Education and families editor at The Sunday Times.
-Ben Ellery, News reporter at The Times.
-Additional reporting from Isabelle Stanley.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | In the few weeks since Sarah Everard was kidnapped and murdered on her way home, something |
| 0:09.1 | seems to have broken. |
| 0:11.5 | Around the country, the floodgates have opened. |
| 0:15.6 | Girls who've suffered in silence for years at some of England's top schools are finally |
| 0:20.8 | speaking out about the sexual abuse they've encountered. |
| 0:24.1 | In terms of anxiety, I would have like a panic attack on which to go every day. |
| 0:28.6 | In class, I would have boys calling around on the floor pretending to pick up a pen and |
| 0:34.8 | they'd be taking photos of my skirt. |
| 0:37.5 | As a stream of harrowing stories emerges, many are asking, how was this ever allowed |
| 0:44.5 | to happen? |
| 0:45.9 | One boy who had sexually assaulted a girl was made to stack books in a library. |
| 0:53.3 | That was seen as an appropriate punishment for a sexual assault. |
| 0:57.5 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Manvina Rana, today, the rape culture at Britain's elite private schools. |
| 1:16.6 | When I started looking at this story, it was when somebody had sent me a message which |
| 1:20.6 | alerted me to this Instagram site. |
| 1:24.2 | It's called Everyone's Invited. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm just trying to open it up now on the computer, and I can see that, in fact, the number |
| 1:32.2 | of anonymous testimonies on the site has now gone up since the last time I looked at |
| 1:35.9 | it. |
| 1:36.9 | It's now standing at 5,684. |
| 1:39.9 | That's Sean Griffiths, the education and families editor at the Sunday Times. |
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