WHAT CAN I DO AFTER BEING RAPED?

How does life play these tricks on us? Like a really fast pendulum, one minute you are extremely Happy, and few seconds later, its like the world has crashed on your head.

One minute, my world was complete I was at my happiest and bam..... THE END. I cannot make sense of this, its been three days now and I still don't know what to make of it.

I met Emeka(not his real name of course).We met in church.He wasn't the handsomest of men.He was a little too short for my taste,but he treated me with respect.He adored and loved me.We dated for a few months and then he proposed.I was over the moon.Emeka was every bit the man I wanted (save for his height,but nobody is perfect right?)



Well,so we were engaged and wedding plans began in earnest.His family loved me and my parents couldn't get enough of him.Everything was perfect,until that fateful night.
I was staying over at his place that night.Initially we had said we were going to keep the relationship "holy" but you know how these things go,one minute you're saying no sex the next,you're ripping each others clothes off.


So we had a lot of sex that period.Which was great.
So there we were lying Down when we heard a loud crash from the living room.
"wait here"Emeka said as he rushed out of the bed room.I heard voices coming from the living room....loud male voices.

Then I heard more crashing sounds.Then I heard Emeka screaming.
"Where's the money??"A male voice screamed.
My heart was in my mouth.How the hell did they know that there was money in the house?Emeka had just come back from the bank with some money to pay for the reception venue.


Armed Robbers!
More violent sounds came from the living room.I looked around the room frantically.What options did I have?Run?...run where?....hide?
"Please....."Came  Emeka's voice.
"SHUT UP!!"
"There's.......no money in the house...."
Then came a loud thud.
And Emeka screamed again.
More loud thuds
Then another.
 Then there was silence.

"Search the room..."I heard One Male voice say.
My heart sank even deeper.The only place to hide was the window  the window was out of the question.It had steel bars on the other end.....THICK steel bars unless I were superhuman,there was nothing I could do .I had barely processed that when the bedroom door exploded inward.

Four men entered.
I saw the rifles and machetes they were carrying.
"If you move,I move you!!"The first man said.The image of that dark man saying those words will never leave my mind.I can still hear his voice in my  head like a bad omen.
I was roughly grabbed and shoved towards the bed.I instantly knew what was about to happen to me.So I begged,I pleaded....I screamed but all I got were blows,Kicks and the sound of my nightie being torn from my body.

They held me down on the bed while their Oga took off his pants.
"I go chop this girl"i remember pleading with them.
My nightgown was torn from my body and I spent the next ......Lord knows how long  staring up into the ceiling as the men took turns grunting,sucking and sweating on top of me.


I tried to focus on something....anything but the pain of being INVADED.One of the men was unusually large.my screams grew louder when he ....entered me.He bashed his fist into my face,cracking a front tooth instantly.I could taste the blood in my mouth.
I'm not really certain how much longer this went on.But at some point,it did.They left me lying there and searched the house.They got what they came for and left.

I continued lying there staring at the ceiling,tasting my own blood,feeling their filth inside me.I couldn't feel anything else .....I couldn't hear anything else.I remember praying to lose consciousness,to some how slip away into oblivion and never wake up again.
It had to be a night mare.



Eventually,I got off the bed and staggered towards the living room.
Emeka lay on the floor with a huge gash at the back of his head.He was unconscious.I ignored the pain in between my legs and tried to revive him.But he remained still.
Soon enough,a neighbour came by and saw the horror that had befallen us.He quickly called the police.

Hours later,the house was filled with Police men and concerned neighbours.Emeka was rushed to the hospital.


That was three days ago.Emeka is yet to regain consciousness.
Emeka's family shocked me.They accused me of conspiring with criminals to kill their son.His mother who had been so nice to me in the past,now called me a witch.I was more or less mobbed by members of his family at the hospital.If not for some doctors and nurses,I am fairly certain they would have killed me.

The fact that I was raped was irrelevant to them.They actually called me a liar.They said all I wanted was their son's money.

They convinced the police to...."look into my matter".I'm so confused and scared.I have no family here.Emeka was the only family I had.Now the doctors are saying he suffered a very serious concussion.

He's still unconscious.
We are praying that he pulls through.His family has promised to make me suffer if he dies.
I have been examined by a doctor ......but what if I have an infection.
I'm so confused.
Please,what do I do? Where do I start from?





LIFE IS A CHOICE MY FRIENDS
SO CHOOSE WISELY
ENOUGH SAID

And we have a winner.....
We are bringing the post forward, for the benefit of those who couldn't or wouldn't find it
Congrats Jane.