A Antarctica researcher revealed how to hide a hammer in her bra after she was forced to arm herself against a male workshop.
Liz Monahon detailed its ordeal at a distance search station in 2022, where a ship mechanic was at the American research station McMurDo.
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This comes as a research group in Antarctica that has been rescued, claiming that she was besieged with a crazy man who sexually assaulted a colleague and threatened to kill them.
The South African Research Group is scheduled to be at the distant Sanae IV base until December, after it only arrived last month.
Monhon, from the United States, was 1500 km of the Antarctic when it was threatened and sexual in 2022.
A judge later said that the 34 -year -old has been isolated for months with the small crew that included amateur boxes, which had a history of criminal violations of alcohol in New Zealand.
The team was surrounded by vast leaves of ice, facing low temperatures of up to a minus 30 degrees, and witnessed the continuous darkness in the winter in Antarctica.
I remembered: “[There was] No one was nothing but myself there to save me. “
For fear that the associate colleague will kill her, caught a hammer and hide her in her sporty bra.
“If he came anywhere near me, I would start swinging to him,” she said.
“I decided that I will survive.”
Her fears arose after frequent running with the man, especially in one of the bars on the site, where Monhon claimed that he and his colleagues began mocking her and his friend about sleeping with them.
He claimed that he later shouted at her saying: “You will get stitches” while shaking anger.
One of them, for example, the waiter called the number 911 and brought everyone out of Monhon, later, saying: “It was a secret that this man was bothering her.”
In a statement by the Ministry of Human Resources on the concerned colleague, she said: “[He] It is a danger to me. He threatened my life.
“He is able to harm me and wants to harm me.
“I have been living in fear during the past two days.”
After Monahon began to arm herself with the hammer, her president and colleagues were collected together to help maintain her safety by sending her by sea to Ersuply.
Upon returning to the United States, Monhon criticized the administration for her failure to protect and her colleagues, saying that she only avoided physical harm thanks to their actions.
“This was the thing that was very terrifying,” she said.
The man concerned did not face any legal procedure or any consequences for what he claimed to Monahon.
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In the same year, the National Science Corporation, a federal agency supervising the American Antarctica program, found that more than half of the women said they were harassed or assaulted.
After issuing the report, more women came up about their experiences, as a colleague claimed to hang her with his leg on her throat.
Jennifer Sorensen claimed that in 2015, she was raped by McMurDo workshop but not reporting that at the time.
She said: “At the station, I had no advocate to speak on behalf of my needs and protection, nor imprisonment for my protection from my rape, and I am not aware of any of the current law enforcement employees.”
After informing the male colleague’s employer, GHG Corp. They launched an investigation and told her: “We concluded that you are a victim of sexual harassment.”
Frozen
Now, the crew beg on the Sanae IV base, which consists of three women and six men, from the South African authorities to help after raising concerns about a workshop.
They claim that while they are isolated together 2000 miles from civilization, he attacked violent members, threatened them, and sexually assaulted two of them.
“Unfortunately, a desperate email from one member on the site said:” Unfortunately, [his] The behavior escalated to a very annoying point. “
Specifically, he was subjected to physical assault [name withheld]It is a serious violation of personal safety and the rules of the workplace.
Moreover, he threatened to death [X]Create an environment of fear and intimidation. “
“I am still very concerned about my own safety, and I constantly wonder if you have become the next victim,” they added.
South Africa’s Environment Minister Dion George said he would personally speak to the team to discuss the situation.
He added that the South African authorities contacted officials in Norway and GermanyThose who have rules closer to Sanae IV, “in case of urgent intervention.”
The officials said they are in daily contact with the team and that “there were no incidents that required the return of any of the nine team members wandering to Cape Town.”
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