I Escaped a Living Hell

The Paarl teen still has nightmares. Photo: Patrick Louw

This 19-year-old has survived a living hell after her own father was sentenced to 50 years for raping her.

The soft-spoken Paarl woman still has nightmares of her 37-year-old father who was sentenced in the Paarl Regional Court two weeks ago.

She says the attacks began when she was only 13.

Today, she feels victorious although she was not present to see her father being sentenced.

“Ek voel verlig (I feel relieved),” she said.

“I feel that I escaped a living hell.”

Nervously, she recalls how her nightmare began.

“He would lay in the middle and my mother and me on either side on the bed,” she said.

“He would rape me… and my mother would be sleeping but she would never wake up.

“I don’t know if she ever heard anything and why she didn’t say anything if she did… I will never know.”

50 years imprisonment is fair justice. Thumbs up for this teenager for letting the cat out of the bag. This is a recurrent problem in Africa. Young girls are constantly abused by family members, yet, they have to deal with it for the fear of losing their family to the police. In her case, I suppose she endured this nightmare for 6 years for the fear of disrupting her parent’s marriage. The most intriguing part of this story is the fact that the father laid in the middle of mother and daughter, raped this poor girl without her mother noticing.

Do you think her mother was oblivious of this incident?

(source IOZ)

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By Kezia Addo

Kezia Addo is a student at North Carolina Central University. She is a regular contributor for Arts and Entertainment. Kezia can be reached at kaseaddo@yahoo.com

8 comments

  1. Mother and daughter sleeping on the same bed, the father in the middle rapping the daughter…..and the mother does not hear????……no no no….from what i know, rape is a very vigorous activity with enormous force. Either the daughter is lying about the location of the rape or this rape happened on a TEMPUR PEDIC MATTRESS…..

  2. castration? for a man? I'll rather die.
    But he should really pay for it. Just prison is not enough

  3. @ Ayibo: I concur… I completly agree with you, he should be crucified upside-down…lol
    …but 50 years imprisonment is fair deal

  4. Seriously, the whole story is intriguing… I personally think the woman was wide awake when her husband was raping their daughter, But she'd rather lose her daughter than to lose her marriage…

  5. man, this is serious. slept with both wife and daugther on the same bed and did his own thing to the daughter? He should be crucified.
    I guess the woman to lost her steam. She should wake up.

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