A COUNCILLOR has sounded calls for better sexual education in schools after facing disgusting catcalls in front of her 14-year-old son.
Hartlepool councillor Amy Prince has revealed how she’d faced vile sexual comments from a van driver on a Sunday afternoon while walking along Raby Road to catch a bus.
The Labour member gave the account at the latest Cleveland Police and Crime Panel after new commissioner Steve Turner set out how tackling violence against women and girls was one of his top ten priorities.
Cllr Prince said: “I was walking with my 14-year-old son and got catcalled quite violently.
“I was pretty shaken and so was my son.
“Are we looking at education in schools?
“The way that man spoke to me was absolutely foul – and my son was genuinely hurt that someone would speak to his mum like that.
“Especially as it was in the middle of the day on a Sunday.”
A survey was carried out by the commissioner’s team over the summer showing more than four in five female respondents felt unsafe across Cleveland.
Almost 48 per…
