Student raped on first night in uni halls says sexual abuse is 'rife' on campus

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A woman who was raped on her first night in student accommodation says sexual abuse is "rife" at university.Aimee Lynskey, 20, was looking forward to beginning "a whole new life" at the University of Liverpool, making friends and getting to know her flatmates at a welcome party.

However she became alarmed when a man propositioned the then 18-year-old, Liverpool Live reports. Aimee, from Grimsby, said: "I remember explicitly saying no and then he raped me on that first night." Her rapist left saying nothing, with Aimee in shock and unsure what to do next.She said: "I didn't really say anything to anybody about it until a couple of months after because I didn't really know what had happened."It was my first night and I was like, 'Is this what everybody does?'"Almost 300 people flooded the uniofliverpoolmemepage, popular with students on Instagram, with their own experiences after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021.Many of the stories related to sexual violence and harassment at the hands of men, often while walking on the street or dancing in clubs, and sometimes involving spiking.Reports of spiking filled the news and social media late last year.Two in three students experience sexual violence at UK universities according to a survey by Revolt Sexual Assault, in partnership with The Student Room.Last year, the first survey of male sexual violence among UK students revealed that 63 of the 554 male students surveyed reported they'd committed 251 sexual assaults, rapes and other coercive and unwanted incidents in the last two years.Chloe Field, deputy president of the Liverpool Guild of Students, told the Liverpool ECHO: "We recognise that there is an issue of rape culture in our general society,