Ok, so as the title says, I feel like this needs reporting because I'm concerned this man may do this to others, or he may escalate his behaviour. But there again, I don't know if I'm overreacting.
This happened a week ago. Friend was having a kitchen appliance delivered from a local shop. On this day, this delivery man turned up on his own (there are usually two for large appliances). My friend is a mature lady and this guy was young, maybe mid twenties/thirtyish. His behaviour was normal until she had to sign on his phone screen to confirm the delivery. She said he put the phone down on the worktop in such a way that she had to turn her back to him to sign it. While her back was to him, she felt him lightly brush his hand across the small of her back. At first, she wasn't sure what it was, then thought she might have been mistaken, or he'd done it accidentally, so she didn't react. But then she felt him run his hand down her hip. She knew then that she wasn't mistaken, and then she felt very flustered, she said she knew she should have " said or done something" but she sort of froze and felt like she didn't know what to do, so she just pretended she hadn't noticed, she just wanted him to go.
As she was walking with him to the front door, she mentioned that she was glad she had an afternoon delivery as she didn't have to get up and "get dressed" really early( i know this sounds a daft thing to say but she was nervous and she always gabbles and talks too much when she's nervous) and he looked directly at her chest and said, "well... half-dressed". Friend had a jumper on, but no bra and even though she was completely covered it was very obvious he was leering at her, even though there was nothing to actually see. She again ignored it, got him out of the front door, then as he was leaving he kept saying weird things like "I'll DEFINITELY see you again" and " If you need anything else delivered I'd love to help, I'd do anything for you". Basically, it was all inappropriate and creepy. After he'd gone she went and scrutinised herself in a mirror to make sure there was nothing showing through her jumper because he made her feel like he could tell she had no bra on.
Now, she's only told me this during a casual chat over lunch, and she doesn't want to report this guy. We're both late fifties, I guess you could say she's a bit old school in that she remembers the days when we just had to "put up" with things like this, and she doesn't want him to lose his job. But i see it differently. I don't want to lose her friendship, which I'm afraid would happen if she found out I reported the incident, but it's preying on my mind that he might do something similar to other women alone in their home who might be really scared by it. Or he may escalate his behaviour. I'm just wondering what you all think, should I just forget about it and accept she doesn't want anything done, or should I report it to someone? And if so, can I do that without it getting back to her that I was the one who reported him?