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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He grabbed you physically? That's assault. If it happened as you say it did, tell your employer, in writing, where, when, and by whom you were assaulted and tell them you are likely to contact the police. You will be asked, by them and if you contact the, police, if there are any witnesses. They are not required, but obviously strengthen your claim. You will be asked why you didn't report it sooner. Say while you felt threatened, you have only learned the act qualified as assault and now want to report it to police. Keep in mind, being creepy or gross does not violate any law, but grabbing you physically is assault.[/quote]

Op needs to deal with this co worker and go to HR, but people like you claiming assault make women sound like snowflake idiots. [/quote]

DP, and a lawyer, but what the OP describes falls within the legal definition of assault. There isn't another way to describe it. Actually both the grabbing and the lewd tongue flicking thing near her ear both constitute assault in most jurisdictions (some places would categorize the grabbing as battery, which I'm sure would make you crazy).

I cannot imagine why calling something what it is would make a woman sound like a "snowflake idiot." [/quote]

Stop trying to play lawyer.

Assault in most jurisdictions is an action with intent to cause physical harm. If op says she is ‘going to the police!!’ she will look nuts and lose credibility. A woman is able to express discomfort about this situation - and it was certainly wrong and highly inappropriate- without unnecessarily exaggerating what happened. [/quote]

Define “playing lawyer”. PP is apparently an actual lawyer.[/quote]

First, doubtful. Second, not any sort of lawyer who deals with real life criminal law. Ask me how I might know that... but sure, encourage OP to go to the police and waste her time, and also look like she may be part of the problem - an eggshell plaintiff. She has a valid complaint but she will look uncredible if she does this.

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