I went to H2O for the first time to have fun with my cousin on vacation. I was assaulted, and the owner had nothing to say about it.
Let me preface this by saying I was dancing alone with my cousin when approached by a boy asking me to dance, with which I replied: "it's a club, I'll probably see you around." He said "okay," and later he was the center of attention in a dance circle. He pulled me in, I danced and was having fun until some other boys decided to tap my bum, whom I all pushed away and they respected that. Suddenly, I turned around and someone else was behind me. I pushed at him, saying "who the f*ck do you think you are?" To which he said " I'm sorry! He said it was okay!" The "he" mentioned, being the boy I initially gave my consent to. The boy I gave my consent to, wearing a Chicago bulls hat, kept pulling other people in and tried my cousin. When I pulled her away and said he wasnt going to do that with her, he mocked me in front of everyone, and I poured my water bottle on him in the heat of the moment. I told the security guards and they removed him for a total of 45 minutes. He was back in, center of attention again, and I was very uncomfortable. I went out to talk to security, and they pointed me to the owner, to which he said "Walk over here with me for a second." i asked why the boy who assaulted me, passing me around, was back in. He said that the security guards confirmed that I had fun dancing on him-- which was true, until he pulled another person onto me. I said "Right, that's not the problem, the issue is someone was pulled onto me without my consent and I was assaulted by him(Chicago bulls hat)." The owner argued legalities with me and said "well technically he (Chicago bulls hat) didn't assault you. The other boy who was pulled into you did, and if you could point him out, we could talk to him too." Not a single inclination of a no tolerance policy for these issues, the owner in fact gaslighting me to the point of running in circles around what was assault and who did it. I told the owner until I was in tears, blue in the face that I was upset and this is dangerous to do, and he described it as an "isolated incident" and that he was basically giving the dude another chance. Over and over, he said "I don't know what you want me to do. What could I do to help?" And had nothing to say when I said "I don't know why he's in here. He assaulted me. He gave my consent to somebody else without my knowledge." Instead of preventing it from happening again, he gaslit me and argued that I was not assaulted by someone who had given away my consent, but by the person who was pulled onto me. This is unacceptable and extremely dangerous for young women. I will not be coming back and highly recommend anyone to stay away from here. I am 19, had I been a child, I wouldn't have known what to do or how to defend myself. I highly recommend any young women stay away from here. read more