Pregnant and still in school, rape victim tells

We have a tendency to easily trust people of the same faith.

They are often welcomed with open arms and accommodated. The fact that they are ‘doing the work of God’ supersedes the safety and security of one’s own family. Any question or suspicion are thrown out the door. This must change. Like the young school girl we featured yesterday, the young rape victim, who boldly shares her story today, faced similar circumstances. The man who raped her called himself a ‘church planter’. He was seen by those in the community as a ‘good man’. He took advantage of a young, naive and vulnerable school student. She is more than two months pregnant and her life will never be the same again. Here is her story:

He said he’s a church planter, but how can a church planter do such a thing? What he did to me, I consider it rape, because he forced me to have sex with him. I trusted him because I had agreed to be his girlfriend in November last year, only because he kept insisting that I say yes to him. I had never met him before that.