Proven right on air: Journalist sexually harassed while reporting on sexual harassment

A BBC journalist had “sexual obscenities” shouted at her while she was filming a report on sexual harassment of women in the United Kingdom.

The incident took place in Nottingham, as reporter Sarah Teale was filming her piece-to camera about high levels of sexual harassment and assault in the area.

In the video below, posted to the station’s Facebook page , Teale begins her report:

“An online study showed that a shocking 95 per cent of people had been harassed, whether jeered at, or had obscenities shouted at them in the street and a large proportion said they’d also been groped or grabbed inappropriately in public”.

A few seconds later, a man’s voice can be heard shouting obscenities her way.

The words were bleeped out by BBC but they were described as being ‘sexual obscenities’ by  BBC Radio Nottingham . 

Teale also tweeted in anger and then uploading the video on Facebook. She ended her broadcast by gesturing toward the unidentified man and saying angrily, ‘Yeah, like that’.

Irony - reporting how 95% of women are victims of verbal harassment-and a man shouts sexual obscenities at me @bbcemt pic.twitter.com/qYzN40ZfNL

— Sarah Hawley (formerly Teale) (@sarahhawleytv) September 24, 2015

Watch the full video here:

BBC journalist Sarah Teale gets sexual obscenities shouted at her while filming a report about harassment of women…

Posted by BBC Radio Nottingham on  Friday, 25 September 2015