Woman films horrific sexual harassment on Australian street: ‘Did you hear that?’

A woman has captured on video the moment she was sexually harassed after a group of men stalked her on her way home from a soccer game one night and threatened her with sexual violence.

Hayley Mabbett, 32, was reportedly on her way home from a Brisbane train station after watching the Broncos play when a car full of men followed her and shouted threats out the window.

In the footage, Mabbett begins to speak before a man’s voice interrupts her with unintelligible mockery. Then he screams, “You better go home or I’ll rape you.”

The driver of the car revved the engine before driving off, sending Mabbett into shock.

“Did you fucking hear that? The car just said, ‘I’m going to rape you’.”

Woman asked ‘frustrating’ question after posting video online

This isn’t the first time Mabbett has reportedly experienced street harassment, but it is the first time she’s caught it on camera. After she posted the footage online, her relatives questioned why she walked home alone in the dark, citing the victim-blaming theme prevalent in these incidents.

“There were a few people who contacted me and asked, ‘Why did you walk home alone at night?'” she told the ABC. “I understand why women are asked this question, but it’s also frustrating that women can’t do this and feel safe doing it.”

When it comes to gender-based harassment and violence, it is a mentality that is being talked about and addressed against women as the country grapples with the national crisis. Anthony Albanese urged men to talk to each other about women’s safety, saying responsibility for women’s safety should not be shifted to victims.

This mentality was also discussed when Yahoo News spoke to Bianca Unwin last week. She said blaming victims distracts people from the real problem – the perpetrators and their dangerous behavior.

“A woman is attacked while running and it’s her fault for wearing headphones,” she said. “Or in cases of domestic violence, it’s her fault for not leaving, even though statistically the most dangerous time for a woman is when she walks away…Women are damned if they do, damned if they don’t,” she said.

Mabbett will now no longer use public transport to get to football matches as she feels unsafe to do so following the incident. According to an Australian Bureau of Statistics public safety report, she is among more than a million Australian women who do not use public transport after dark because they feel unsafe.

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