Bachelor Former student Bekah Martinez shared an unpleasant incident that happened on Friday, as she walked through the neighborhood with her two children.
In an Instagram post on Friday, the 26-year-old, who starred in the 22nd season of The bachelor, wrote that he was walking hand in hand with his daughter Ruth, 2, and pushing his son Franklin, 9 months old, in a baby stroller when a stranger passed by on a skateboard and sexually assaulted her.
“I was just taking a walk, looking like this, pushing my baby asleep and holding hands with my son, when a teenager skated and grabbed my ass,” wrote Martinez along with a photo of him “I felt totally helpless yelled at he. ‘THAT’S NOT OK. WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU? ‘I wanted to chase him and get him off the skateboard. Punch him in the back. Do something, anything to convince him that what he did was very wrong. “
Martinez added that the moment was not only frightening for her, but also for her son. “Ruth was so upset,” she wrote. “She kept repeating in her 2 year old voice: ‘Are you all right, Mom?’ I am not well. I’m angry.”
OChatty broads the podcast co-host added: “I’m mad that this kid felt bold enough to touch me in the middle of the day, in a neighborhood, with my kids by my side. What the fuck is he going to do with a woman when he’s a adult on the cover of the night? “She also remembered a similar incident that happened years before she wrote,” I hate it. I hate that this is the world my daughter will grow up in. “
Martinez continued the conversation in his Instagram stories. “I can only think of how Brock Turner only got 3 months in prison after being Caught by WITNESSES for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman,” she wrote, referring to the Stanford University student convicted of three crimes for sexually assaulting a woman named Chanel Miller behind a trash can on the college campus in 2015. Turner was later sentenced to six months in a California county jail, but was released after three. “Our society and laws protect rapists and predators,” continued Martinez. “I don’t care if they’re underage or ‘promising athletes’ or business owners or ‘really cool guys’ or whatever. I don’t care if they are your friends or family and you ‘don’t think they would do that’. Men who sexually abuse people in any way are a danger to society, period. “
Martinez went on to defend all victims: “It doesn’t matter if you are a sex worker,” she wrote. “… It’s not your fault. Nobody deserves or asks to be sexually abused.”
She also drew attention to the violence in conventional pornography: “Is this consistent exposure to visual sexual violence a big problem,” she said, adding: “Women who are open about their sexuality and ‘show off’ their bodies? No. Sorry. No … Men know they have no right to touch a woman’s body because it looks good. But they do it anyway. “
Women from the realm of reality shows jumped into the comments section of Martinez’s post to offer their support. “I feel sick,” wrote the former Vanderpump rules star Kristen Doute. “This should never be a norm or something that we expect to happen or that we should ignore. Thank you for speaking. “
“I am reading this while drying my hair and I had to stop and sit because I got very hot and angry inside”, he wrote Bachelor the star Becca Tilley. “My blood is boiling.”
Martinez ended his original post with a call to action. “I don’t care what you have to do to teach your kids to respect the people around them,” she said. “I hate to know that there are predators around every curve, around every corner. And the world will always be unsafe for women. “
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