A 43-years-old woman Nina Jane Patel claims that she was groped and sexually assaulted by a group of men in Facebook’s Metaverse. The British Woman penned down her pain in a Medium Post, she talked about the incident in her ordeal.
“Within 60 seconds of joining — I was verbally and sexually harassed — 3–4 male avatars, with male voices, essentially, but virtually gang-raped my avatar and took photos — as I tried to get away they yelled — “don’t pretend you didn’t love it” and “go rub yourself off to the photo,” Nina wrote in her post on Medium.com.
“A horrible experience that happened so fast and before I could even think about putting the safety barrier in place. I froze.
It was surreal. It was a nightmare,” she added.
She told The Daily Mail, “I am a mother of three daughters and a son and I have many concerns about letting them go into this seemingly fun, inviting area only to encounter dangerous and damaging behaviour.”
‘This technology will be prevalent in our children’s futures, so my mission is to create safe and secure virtual-reality experiences,’ she added.
A spokesman for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said, “We’re sorry to hear this happened. Horizon Venues should be safe and we are committed to building it that way. We will continue to make improvements as we learn more about how people interact in these spaces, especially helping people report things easily and reliably.”