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A Girl Story

(We change the characters name in this story)

She was 13 when she saw her father sexually abusing her 18-month-old sister. When he realised what had happened, he responded by dragging alina to another room and beating her. “I would see him molesting my sister every morning. “Each time I tried to pull her away, I got beaten,” she said. She tried to persuade her mother to not leave her sister alone with their father, but was too scared of him to say why. And then one day little Lily stopped speaking. “My sister was alone with my father when we heard a sudden shout. We rushed there to find my father moving out of the room. She never spoke again,” says Alina. Lily’s trauma ended when her mother witnessed the abuse. “My parents had a big fight. He said he’d leave home. And he did,” says Alina. Alina had to drop out of school and work as domestic help to support her family. “My mother was a housewife and he left us no money, but we were happy to see him go,” she says. Alina had her mother’s support, but many abused children are abandoned or ignored by their families.