I watch your tiktoks. Would like this to be anonymous. I was raped by the age of 10. For half my life after that I had to see his face almost every week. After I got raped the following year my grandad passed away. I was depressed and just was about to start secondary. In secondary i was a loner and eventually I got bullied for 5 years. In 2019 finally told my mum about my rapist and she got my uncles and dad toi beat him up but he still got married. The same year, I was peer pressured and fat shamed, un loved so I turned to Snapchat to boys but in the end got groomed into sending nudes. 2020, the whole school found out about my nudes cos of this girl who I thought was my sister. Police, teachers got involved. They called my mom. She supported me but was disappointed. 2021, covid hits. I'm very depressed I still feel disgusting about myself. 2022, currently 17, positive for the future and Inshaa Allah I will love myself more. I have better connections spiritually with my religion.

I been thinking real hard about even relaying these awful things about the person that I have admired the most, the person I have respected and revered my whole life but that now, has completely backstabbed me in the worst way possible. A few years ago, a scandal broke in my political family involving my mother. As you can imagine, it nearly broke my marriage and tore my husband’s family apart. My sister in law found my father in law and my mom talking on social media. The worst part of it, when I was confronted, I was accused of knowing about the whole affair and made it looked like I was an accomplice to the whole ordeal. When I had absolutely no clue to such a disgusting mess. I don’t know what neither of them were trying to accomplish and now, I’m the black sheep of the family. No one talks to me. While my father in law is still loved and honored. My mother the home wrecker and I pay the sins of her ordeals. She never once has said I’m sorry. Never! In her head, I’m better off without that side of the family. But it’s not about that; why did she do this to me? Why my father in law? Among so many men? Why him! I guess I’m just looking for an explanation and I know I will never get it from her. Because she just cannot accept she did anything wrong. I wish I could get her version because as of now, I only know everyone else’s but her’s. I always thought I didn’t need to hear her side because it’s not my place to question her, but I have kids who now have to suffer for her sins as well. I don’t think it’s fair to them either. I guess the damage is done as well and the past is the past. I won’t get nothing accomplished but I just want an acknowledgment from her part that she messed up.

• August 12, 2023