Sophia was eight years old when her mother died. Her father married again and his new wife didn’t want to take care of her.
“One day, when my father had gone away to work, his wife threw me out of our home. I was poor and had no parents to care for me. Finally I found a place to live, but the condition was that I was forced to become a sex slave. I had nowhere else to go. My rights were taken from me, because I couldn’t go to school and I was rejected by my family and everyone else. But now I have started school again. I want to get an education, whatever happens.”
Sophia, 16
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