Ciara Mangan says one person speaking out against taunts in workplace would have ‘saved her’ from months of torture
. My control was taken from me. I stood no chance,” she told the court.
“Everybody in work knew I was raped and it was the joke of the day. Then the tormenting started, and for the next 10 months.”“A colleague commented: ‘Jeez, be careful of Ciara, Shane. You already raped her. You wouldn’t want to do it again’,” Mangan recalled. She tried to seek support from one colleague who, she says, told her to: “Shut the f**k up and be glad he didn’t get you pregnant”.
“I was 18 when I was raped but I was employed there when I was 16, 17. My parents thought I was going into a safe place to work, and it was absolutely the opposite,” she says. Welcoming the new relationships and sex education programme in schools, which will include modules on consent and the influence of pornography, being introduced at Junior Cycle level from September, Mangan says change “needs to go further than that”.
“In my case some of the people who were behaving like they did were well out of school. It is another area that needs to be tackled – education, awareness at work, one person speaking up and shutting it down and saying, ‘No, that’s not on’. Stop following the crowd.”
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