It's been six months of sexual abuse by a man I call “Father”. Growing up in a one-room apartment has been hell. I watched my mum struggle every day to give me and my four siblings the life we deserve. It has not been easy for her. 

Talking about my dad will be equated to talking about an infidel. The Bible started that any man that is unable to provide for his family is worse than an infidel. I will also add the fact that my dad is not just an infidel, he is also a beast. How can a man be sleeping with his thirteen-year-old daughter without any remorse? 

My father does this every time my mum travels. A father that sleeps with his daughter does not deserve to be only sentenced to imprisonment but death by hanging. I do ask myself, does my mother not satisfy him enough for him to even think of sleeping with his child? I had no other choice but to tag my dad as a “Pedophile”. That is the best explanation to give to a man that sleeps with his teenage daughter. I desired to speak to my mum about this but on second thought, I could not because I knew she will not believe me. This inhuman attitude continued, I had no choice but to open up to my mum. As expected, she doubted it. 

My father had earlier warned me not to bother telling my mum because it would be my word against his. 

My mum did not believe me. She even scolded me never to tell her such again. This inhuman treatment of my dad continued. I was getting tired, I needed to speak to someone that will believe me and avoid killing myself one day out of depression. 

I never knew my mum believed until she called me to her room and showed me a video, I was shocked. I asked her how she found out, this was when she told me everything. She told me that after I told her what I was going through, she knew she trained me and my siblings well and we are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. After my complaint, she took it upon herself to investigate the whole case. 

She said to me, I  hid a little camera in the room and traveled coming back to see this awful video. I broke down and cried. She consoled me and assured me that he will surely pay for what he has done to me. With tears in my mum's eyes, she said, this is not the first time I heard he exhibited such behavior. I should have corrected this but chose to pay deaf ears not knowing that his own daughter will be caught in the web of his inhuman act.

Currently, my dad is rotting in jail, and I’m unapologetic about it. I and my siblings might be mocked and made fun of by our friends but what matters is saving our futures.