Sofia was ten years old when her aunt from her maternal home came visiting. As a small girl, she loved her aunt and decided to go and live with her but her parents did not buy the idea.
However the girl kept crying insisting that she wants to go with her. Her father later succumbed to the girl's request since he couldn't see her cry further and afterall the woman is a close relative.
Finally she left with her to her maternal home which is a village far away. On arrival, Sofia has to face the reality of a new home.
She suddenly became the maid of the house as all the domestic activities of the household like sweeping, cleaning, laundry and cooking was left for her.
At first, she was to cook and pound fufu which she didn't know how to prepare as a child. When she couldn't prepare it well, she received a welcome beating from her aunt then she knew that it wasn't going to be easy living with her but she accepted her fate.
However, when she started schooling, she always come back to meet all the house chores waiting for her, yet she will still go to the farm in the evenings.
On a fateful day, while on her way to the farm, a young guy started chasing her with an evil intention towards her. Note that she is now an adulescent.
She ran as her strength could carry her and thank God she escaped and went back home. When she narrated her ordeal to her aunt, she became very angry with her because she couldn't do the work she was supposed to do at the farm.
Just imagine, farming that evening was more important for her aunt than the safety of the poor child.
The untinkable started happening when the child stopped going to school because her uncle refused to be paying her school fees but will pay that of his own children.
Now he demands to sleep with her before he can pay her fees. This is the height of wickedness of man, an uncle for that matter.
This is dirty and terrible, an arbominable act. So the child does not go to school anymore because she refused to give in to the wicked request of her uncle.
He will always abuse her by touching her whever she serves him food and she can't even tell anybody even her aunt as no one will believe her, so she decided to swallow everything and die in silence.
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