Ms. Tina (name changed) grew up in a family where her mother is the sole income earner of the family due to my father’s sudden bed ridden sickness for prolonged years. They were torn apart by poverty, hardly during those times her mother could earn only Rs. 80/- per day by selling corns in the streets of Kokrajhar town. The money she earned was not sufficient for them to fill stomach, pay school fee and pay father’s medicine bills. Looking at the family’s awful situation, two of her classmates lured Ms. Tina and forced to work as a commercial child sex worker. Ms. Tina narrated “Elder men started sexually abusing, raped me when I was only 13 years old. I was indoctrinated to a way of life and I was brainwashed. I was emotionally, mentally and physically broken; my movements were restricted by the pimps who controlled me. Men were physically abusive with me; I was suffocated, physically assaulted, abandoned, strangled, starved, injected drugs and hit many times”.“Now I fully regret and realize that my childhood was not a childhood, I missed the joy of being a child. My self esteem was so low that intimate relationships and friendships were difficult; I could not trust anyone until I found NEDAN Foundation two years back”. With the help of NEDAN, I have recovered thousands of abusive memories and I am no longer a prisoner to my life. I narrate my story because I have healed from my traumatic incident of child abuse and sex trafficking; I narrate my story because I want everyone to understand and be aware that child abuse and sex trafficking is real and I am one of the witness”.
Ms. Tina (name changed…….
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