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LIFE OF A RAPED LITTLE GIRL

EPISODE 1

If only people had their way, they will definitely choose the family they belong to, such would have been Nancy's story.
Nancy a very bright, strong, brilliant and beautiful child filled with so much pride for herself was born into a family filled with so much pride and hatred for its members.
She didn’t have a choice but to live up to whatever she saw, moved from Lagos to her father’s house at age three, if only her parents knew they probably wouldn’t have taken her home but you know “everything happens for a reason”, should we also say that to Nancy’s case?
Let’s dive into the story of Nancy a four-year-old girl who was raped by a relative.
On this fateful day, Nancy got back from school and had to stay at her god mother’s place alone with her kid sis, playing as every other innocent child would in the absence of her parents, this uncle returned and asked for a cup of drinking water Nancy being so innocent and naive went to get the water if only she had known what was waiting for her, oh!! my poor little girl.
She handed him the cup of water and started gisting with him like every other day, uncle responded as usual and all of a sudden he shut the door, put Nancy on the bed and forced his disgusting and shameless self into the poor child, girl didn’t understand what was going until uncle satisfied himself picked a piece of cloth and wiped the whole mess, gave her a bath and changed her clothes so no one knows.
As little as she was, she knew the riffles that went on in the family and so didn’t tell her mom but rather told her dad what had happened earlier that day, dad tried to fight for her but lost his life on the line.
While growing up, she had this pain within her, she was so traumatized and barely spoke to anyone even her other siblings.
The single act of that day brought a great change in her life, due to circumstances surrounding her life at that moment, she was forced to go and stay with her aunt in another city after her dad’s burial, yea she was going to have peace finally you think right but this hurt so much that she could barely associate with anyone and was always locked up in the house, one mystery you must know is no one knew what was going on with Nancy everybody thought she was one of those gentle girls who would always hide in their shell little did they know she was dying inside.
Yea a new school, environment, friends, and so on. It was a public house so virtually almost all the kids in the compound attended same school, Nancy was so secluded that the only time she spoke to them was while at school.
Episode 2 in anticipation........

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