Boko Haram Victim Stigmatized For Having Rapist’s Baby

Aisha Musa (pictured above) has been shunned by her community for having a terrorist’s baby. According to reports, she was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants who killed her family, and forced her at gunpoint to become a jihadi bride.

Musa who was later rescued by the Cameroon military has reportedly been living in the crowded Minawao refugee camp for seven months and survives by selling corn meal at the local market.

Revealing that her captor would lock her in during the day and rape her at night, she told CBS News, “They show you a gun, and then whatever they say you have to follow their command. He would go on operations and kill people, and then come home and force me to be with him.”

The worst of her ordeal was finding out she was pregnant by her rapist.

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“I am not enjoying that I have a baby from a Boko Haram man,” she said. But she is resigned and there are moments of tenderness between her and her young child.

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Musa, like other girls defiled by the terrorists, is now faced with immense stigma as her community regard girls with such plight as spoiled goods – her baby a very public reminder of a cruel and unfair shame.

Should she have gotten rid of the pregnancy?