WASHINGTON: Last summer, Gina Martin was at a music festival in
Britain when a man standing nearby snapped a photo up her skirt. But when she
reported the incident to the police, they told her it was unlikely they'd be
able to follow up on it.
In an interview with the Guardian, she said the police told her: "We've looked at the photo; it shows more than you'd want it to show but you're not going to hear much from us. There's not much we can do."
Their reasoning was that it didn't qualify as a crime under the current law because she had been wearing underwear.
So Martin decided to start a campaign to make the practice of taking photos up a woman's skirt without consent - known as "upskirting" - a criminal offense punishable by up to two years in prison. She got support from lawmakers, and on Friday, Justice Minister Lucy Frazer said the government would back the bill Liberal Democrat lawmaker Wera Hobhouse introduced.
In an interview with the Guardian, she said the police told her: "We've looked at the photo; it shows more than you'd want it to show but you're not going to hear much from us. There's not much we can do."
Their reasoning was that it didn't qualify as a crime under the current law because she had been wearing underwear.
So Martin decided to start a campaign to make the practice of taking photos up a woman's skirt without consent - known as "upskirting" - a criminal offense punishable by up to two years in prison. She got support from lawmakers, and on Friday, Justice Minister Lucy Frazer said the government would back the bill Liberal Democrat lawmaker Wera Hobhouse introduced.
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