We send email and text alerts about dangerous offenders in a bid to end violence against sex workers. Small charities could learn from what we’ve done
Robin*, a student also working as a sex worker, signed up to National Ugly Mugs in 2013 to report that he was raped by a client. The circumstances were almost identical to an incident that had been reported to our charity two weeks earlier. The only difference was that the sex worker who reported the earlier incident managed to get away without being sexually assaulted. If Robin had signed up a few weeks earlier, we could have sent him an alert warning him to avoid the man who raped him.
This is far from an isolated incident. National Ugly Mugs deal on average with 60 incidents of crime against sex workers per month, including about 10 rapes. A survey in 2015 found that 47% of sex workers who responded had been victims of crime, including rape and robbery, while more than a third (36%) had received threatening texts, calls or emails. Almost half of sex workers said they regularly feared for their safety.
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