Kaitlyn Regehr was groped by a creep on the bus during her commute in London, England on Tuesday and is now searching for the stranger who stuck up for her, Cosmopolitan reports.
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Kaitlyn Regehr posted her story on Facebook, along with a picture of her holding a card saying “thank you” and a thumbs up.
She wrote in a Facebook post which has now been shared over 26,000 times: ‘Thank you for saying something when that man grabbed me. “That could be your mother, that could be your sister; she is someone’s sister”.
The man continued to ask the offender about the women in his life, questioning him about how he would feel if someone groped a woman he knew. You said, ‘She could be your sister. “She is someone’s sister”.
Thirty-year-old Kaitlyn Regehr was sexually assaulted on a bus in west London, England, earlier this week, according to BBC.
Regehr ends her post by encouraging everyone to speak up when they see something wrong.
She said she moved away from the alleged attacker after the incident on the 207 bus and thought nothing more of it.
“I thank you not just because you stood up for me, or because you made me feel safe, but because on your transit home – in this big, potentially anonymous city – you humanised assault”. You didn’t turn away.
With no name or contact information, she’s now using social media to thank him. Kaitlyn says that’s when a Good Samaritan stood up to the man and said that the behavior was not acceptable. “Do you have a mother, a sister?’, and I was really touched by that, he kind of humanised the situation”. You took a stand. You said something.
She posted an appeal on social media asking people “to help me find this awesome dude so I can buy him a pint”.
The post has already been liked by more than 91,000 people and shared more than 49,900 times.
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Ms Regehr later reported the incident to Transport for London and now police are investigating.
