#MeToo campaign goes viral with thousands sharing cases of sexual assault

Social media has been flooded with personal stories from victims of sexual harassment after women responded to the campaign '#MeToo'.

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Source: Mallika Dua/Facebook

The '#MeToo' social media campaign has gone viral with women across the world and India sharing their personal stories of sexual assaults on them.

The campaign was started by Sandra Muller, a journalist who began the hashtag by recounting how her former boss had called her "my type of woman" and then commented on her breasts.

Soon after, American actress Alyssa Milano picked it up and her tweet received over 50,000 people replying, making "#MeToo" the top trending topic.
The horror stories of women sharing the sexual assaults on them have flooded the timelines on Facebook and Twitter.

Indian comedian Mallika Dua on her Facebook post shared how she was sexually harassed at the age of seven in a car.

“Me too … in my own car. My mother was driving while he sat at the back with his hand under my skirt the whole time. I was 7. My sister was 11. His hands went everywhere inside my skirt and on my sister’s back. My father who was in a different car dislocated the bastard’s jaw with his bare hands later that night,” she wrote.
Indian women flooded the internet with their stories.
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By Mosiqi Acharya

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