Many girls suffer in silence at the hands of relatives who sexually abuse them under the guise of taking them out of poverty. One such case is the ordeal of Kahunda, hunda means dowry. The name Kahunda is given to female babies whom the parents expect will get married for them to get dowry.
She was defiled and impregnated by her stepbrother while she was 14, She regrets why she never shared with anyone what she was going through in the hands of her stepbrother until she got pregnant. She said she came from a poor family at 10 she was already hawking vegetables to help her poor mother.
Her stepbrother offered to send her to school that was when he began sleeping with her. At eleven he reported her to her mother accusing her of following boys. She said one day she was sent home from school he promised to give her school fees. Tied her up and raped her after the incident he was sleeping with her occasionally, put her on family planning, sometimes give her abortion pills.
“My brother forcibly defiled me for over one year but I never told anyone. I kept quiet because he threatened to kill me if I told anyone and he was also the one supporting me in my education and other basic needs.”
When she got pregnant she was beaten and forced to confess after naming her step brother the father of her child he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison today her child is 5 years because she refused to abort it. Her family rejected her when she refused to be married off. She said she’s thinking of committing suicide knowing she birthed a child for her brother kills her every day.
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