Sex crime victim fired for taking time off work to report a man who tried to rape her

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A SEX attack victim says she was sacked for pressing for police action against the offender.

The woman, who can't yet be named, collapsed in distress today after appealing for help to catch the man who tried to rape her.

Ambulances were called to the Victoria Police Centre in Flinders St.

She was treated at the scene but declined to go to hospital.

The car part manufacturer office worker today alleged her employer told her not to bother to come back when she asked for the day off to attend the police media conference calling for information about the assault.

She said she'd only had the job for a week.

"He (her boss) didn't want me to press ahead with charges," she said.

The dramatic scenes occurred after she told how an overweight man assaulted her at Kensington train station on Tuesday at 6.30am.

Police say the man approached her, grabbed her around the neck, and told her he was going to have sex with her.

She kneed him in the groin and broke free to run for help.

Police fear the man is responsible for three sexual assaults in the northern suburbs in the past month.

She described the man as about 40 years old with an olive complexion, large solid build, dark hair, bushy eyebrows and a greying moustache.

He was unshaven and wearing a dark blue T-shirt, blue jeans and beige or white runners with a blue stripe down the side.

The man spoke with a thick accent and smelt strongly of alcohol.

[Willowdared]

There's probably more to this, but who'd want to work for a dump like that?