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preg rape teen
Sep 27, 2023

Survivor to Saviour

I was in my first-year of college when mother Teresa passed away. I was so influenced by her life and work, that I decided to join her missionaries of charity and dedicate my life to serving others. All the paperwork was done, but just at the last moment, my mother got weak. At that time an American Missionary family who was running a children's home were our family friends. They suggested I volunteer in their children's home and serve. I accepted the offer and joined that children's home as a stock keeper and purchasing officer. This Children's Home supported more than 300 children from leprosy background. It was founded in the year 1932 so they had boys and girls of all ages. When I started working, I was supposed to hand over groceries every evening at 8 pm from the store to the kitchen for the next day’s meal. It was June 23rd that I went about it as normal. The store was in a secluded place behind a mango orchard. While passing through I saw the male warden raping an early teenage girl. He also saw me.    I was a young girl of 19. I got scared, very scared!  But since I was a bit bold since my childhood, I went to check on her and help her. I brought her to the manager’s house. The manager and his family were very pleasant and nice. I reported the incident to him. He assured me that they will take action. The warden was a married man a father of a son. Soon he was terminated from his duties and no police complaint was made against him as this was the matter of the reputation of the home. Anyways a year passed, and life was back to normal… One day, again, I was going through the same area for the same work. Suddenly I was dragged towards a double story building from behind by two men. I was blindfolded. Once reached the building, they bashed my head on the wall several times and tried to make me unconscious. I didn't know what was happening. And I was unconscious, I don't know what happened. When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital. The manager found me near that building with my head bleeding and an eye out of the socket. I had a compound fracture on my left thigh. I was hospitalised for three months. Then I came home. Everyone took it as an accident. It was then I found out that I was pregnant. I mean just no periods. I never went to any doctor during my pregnancy. You may not believe it but till daughter was born, my family and neighbours did not know that I was pregnant. With each day passing, I was in turmoil as to what I should do. Everyone thought I was gaining weight. Soon I started having movements. To date, I did not know how I got pregnant. But you know time had to come.. It came. March 28th, I left my house to kill myself. I felt God was not with me it's useless to live and make my child's life hell. I moved to another city. I had one thing in mind, if God is with me he will open a way. Otherwise, I will kill myself. My family would have been in a panic, but here I was standing by the side of a road in a new city. I was wearing some gold. I thought I will sell it if I get any shelter. Then I will consult a doctor. Get the delivery done and tell my parents that they have to accept me with my child. I saw a board of a nursing home on a billboard. Was this a sign? I went there. The doctor was not available. An MR who was there saw me. He made a calculated guess as to my problem. He came asked me if he could drop me anywhere. He also suggested that if I need a shelter, to go to the nearest girls hostel. He gave me the address. I left the nursing home and knocked on the first door I found. I told my situation. They were Sikh family. The aunty took me in and said they are there for me. They gave me food and a place to sleep. This was God’s plan. The next day, they took me to the Nursing Home. The doctor said it was time and it would have to be a  cesarian. I  was admitted and my beautiful daughter was born on the 31st. All bills paid by this family for an absolute stranger! They then informed my parents. My family was in trauma. They didn't know what happened. But they came took me back home. The manager at the home was informed and he helped me as he suspected the warden. DNA testing was done and it matched the warden. But again, no complaint was registered as he left his wife and agreed to marry me...the scoundrel! My father was a simple man. We had not much money to afford to fight a case with no support. People suggested marriage to the rapist was my best option. Then my father n mother took me to another state. I completed my studies and did all kinds of jobs as I had to raise my daughter. I completed my PhD in psychology I opted for psychology after being a science student to heal myself. And here I am now. Now, I hope the people work with understand why I cannot control myself to help others like this. I have boundaries. If that lady had not helped a stranger like me, I would have been dead. So, I stand for my cause with every human being in need.  I am now that lady and I am in a position to save others and will do so always.
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child rape
Sep 27, 2023

My smile just died…

My story began in 1983. I was the child of a single dad. My father was an extremely talented man, a pianist who had turned that into his profession. We were spending a few days a one of his friends homes and there were get-togethers and parties every other day. The piano in there home is where my father spent most of his time. That evening while the adults sang familiar sing-along songs in the large living room I, feeling rather lost and out of place ventured out into the garden that was resplendent with the most beautiful roses of every hue. As I skipped from rose bush to rose bush I failed to notice someone watching me. A while later, when sunset was making its appearance the son of one of the ladies present approached and offered to play a game of hide and seek with me. We began our game and it led me to the side of the garden where the old cement water trough lay amongst a cluster of Hibiscus trees. It was there that he lured me and told me to look at the setting sun. Then he began to grope and I felt his hand upon my privates, pushing through my underwear until he had it right where he wanted. I squirmed and tried to break free but one arm around my neck held me tight. Next he had unbuttoned his trousers and pushed me onto the floor beside the trough. I could feel the weight of his body pressing down upon me. He wouldn’t hurt me for too long he said. It would be over soon…it was necessary. But I mustn’t tell anyone or it would happen again and it would hurt much more. I felt a sharp pain as he thrust into me. I cried out, muffled cries through the hand that covered my mouth. I could hear the sound of the piano and people singing but they didn’t hear me. When he was done he pulled me up, smoothed my short, curly  hair and dusted my clothes. And then he was gone. I stood there under the hibiscus trees and watched the blood run down my legs and onto the white lace ankle socks. I wiped my tears on the hem of my white dress with the strawberry print. I was afraid and the pain between my legs was so sharp it brought tears to my eyes. I washed my socks in the trough for fear of being beaten by my father if he saw them ruined. And then I forced my painful body to walk inside. When I entered the room and stood at the door, more blood trickling down my legs everyone stopped singing and stared. My father looked out from behind the piano and the music stopped. There were voices, people talking and I remember my dad giving me a hot bath. I was carried to bed and I slept. Nobody ever spoke of it again. It wasn’t until I was older that I realised what he had taken from me that day by the trough and under the trees. I was four years old when he took my smile but the memory remains even today.
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anger
Sep 27, 2023

My anger gave me courage

There have been numerous occasions when I was touched inappropriately when going to school even as a child. I was groped by a passerby going on a bicycle at the age of 13. I felt this embarrassing but didn't share these experiences with my parents. Slowly it became a norm, experiencing these now and then during college days. When I was in Bangalore for work there have been several occasions when I was eve-teased while waiting in Bus stops and shopping malls. Inappropriate touching almost on public transport reached a point where I started attacking back the molesters with safety pins and stamping their feet with my block heel sandals. I even started verbally attacking them and shaming them on public transports for their disgusting behaviour. On one of the occasions when I was waiting at a Bus stop, I was eve teased for over 15 to 20 minutes and my temper rose with every minute passing by. I sat on one of the seats on the platform ignoring this man. He sat next to me almost touching me. When I looked at him with anger, he winked. I gathered all courage and strength and swung my bag pack full of books at his face and used all the slurs at him that I had ever known. I grabbed the attention of few other people waiting around. Unfortunately, nobody intervened but this guy ran away and quickly got into a moving bus. This all happened when I was 22. Today, I'm not someone who will stay quiet if someone ever-teases and touches me appropriately. I'm sure to attack the molester back in my own capacity by verbally shaming him in the public.

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