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A woman alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a senior employee while working as a junior secretary in a law firm in Singapore.
Stomper Vani, 54, said she is still suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the incident 28 years ago.
She shared: “I need to point out not just an injustice but a dastardly, extremely insidious, torturous and traumatic incident that happened in 1997 when I was working in a law firm.
“I was at my desk when a partner in the firm penetrated me through my thin pants, at a time when I had just gone through a personal setback and my mental state was affected.”
According to Vani, she was “humiliated and bullied in school” throughout her entire life because she was seen as a “mental social outcast”.
She said things got worse when she joined the company, where she was “humiliated” by two partners in the law firm – one of whom was a woman who laughed at Vani “all the time”. She was also given “more work than (her) body could handle”.
