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.
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?
Hmmm this is serious oooo. I feel for her. Nigeria and stigmatising.
I salute her courage for keeping the pregnancy, b the time she was rescued maybe the pregnancy has gone far, she would have died trying to get rid of the baby. It’s not her fault in any way that she was abducted. The stigmatization is senseless to me.
She should have gotten rid of the baby to be sincere.i can only imagine the stigma that baby will pass through in life
People are just so clueless. Even if she wanted to abort, how would she have done it with all this stress an trauma? Smh. Nigerians and stigmatizing people Mtscheeeeeeewwww.
Poor child people should Pls encourage her not run her down as if it’s her fault
Na Wao oooo!
Hmmmmm
Nawa
It is well
may God see her through
people sef,what issh do they have with the new born baby,eehn? wetin concern them,abeg leave the lady to bond with her baby,God knows why it happened like this
I can not judge her
So sad.I really feel for her.If I were in her shoes,l would leave that community and start life where my history is not known
so sad
Hmmmmmmm, it’s just a pity
No. She did what a good person should have done regardless of the shame and stigmatisation. I salute her being for being a woman with human consideration.
It’s sad …..there was no way she would have had access to the facilities to abort the pregnancy. …I feel for her it’s not easy looking at a child and remembering it’s the product of rape and child of a monster
The stigmatization is senseless.. It is not her fault… Why should she be stigmatized? Nigerians should help her so that her life will be made better.