“It changed my life forever, because of what he did to me. He robbed me of my childhood. I don’t know who I would have become but I know it is not who I am today. I am just working on trying to make me better, but it is hard, very hard,” the 21-year-old said.
While for many at that age life would have just begun, for this woman it is as if she has already lived her life, all because of years of rape by a relative.
She agreed to speak to me because she sees it as therapy. Her one condition was that I was not to disclose her name or even the community where she lived because, “I can’t live with that public stain. I know I didn’t do anything wrong, but I can’t live with that stain.”
