It’s terrifying to know that almost 1,000
young girls are sexually abused every year, according to the Ministry of Public
Security.
Some
little girls have to become mothers at the age of 12. Some are even raped when
they are as young as seven. The victims suffer from disorders after the
horrific incidents, some have to quit school in fear or shame, or even have to
move to escape slander from neighbors.
Dreams smeared
Two
recent victims are from Bao Thang District of the northern Lao Cai Province --
Thao, 8 years old, and Chinh, 12.
After
hours of conversations with Tuoi Tre journalists in her house, Thao gradually
gained confidence and began recalling what happened to her over a year ago when
she was on her way home from school.
Gripping
a toy in her hand, Thao tightened her lips before suddenly uttering, “It’s a
mad chap. But he is now imprisoned and he is unable to harm me again. My mother
told me.”
Her
voice wasn’t normal, and she gasped while her face lost its color when she talked
of the incident. The man who harmed her is in his 50s and often offered Thao
candies several days before seducing her.
In his
house, Thao managed to scream for help for almost an hour until locals broke
into the house and saved her as she lay naked on the ground.
Thao’s
grandfather told Tuoi Tre that she always asks him to close the doors at night,
even when he is there.
“My
teachers and other adults love me and take care of me, but my friends always
tease me [as the whole commune is well informed of the incident]. Whenever they
tease me, I get away,” Thao said.
“Some
days I went to school but they teased me a lot, and then I quit school to go
home. I don’t like school anymore,” she said, while throwing the toy in her
hand into a pool nearby.
Thao
revealed her dream, “I wish to have a doll too much. And I want my friends to
play with me and sleep with me.” Thao is now living with her grandfather, as
her mother works far from home and her father has a new wife.
“I also
miss my parents too much.”
The
other victim, Lu Thi Chinh, 13, was abused by a neighbor who exploited her
naivety and confidence. She was raped when she was 11 years old.
Unlike
Thao, Chinh still goes to school, regardless of slights from unfriendly people.
Despite her juvenile age, Chinh is old enough to realize that she should not
harm her own life.
Yet
Chinh’s mother admitted that she is saving money so that she can move her
daughter to a new place to resettle their life and help her daughter escape her
bad reputation. This is just a dream though, as she has no plan regarding where
to actually live in the future.
Ha, 13, in Binh Phuoc Province is expecting her baby in
two months
The
tragedy of juvenile mothers
This is
the story of a young girl named Mai, 12, who lives in Dong Tho Commune of the
northern province of Thai Binh’s Dong Hung District.
Mai was
playing with her neighbors when her mother called, “Mai, go home and take care
of the baby.”
Her
mother, Han, called the baby ‘younger brother’, but actually the baby is Mai’s
son. And the biological father of the baby is a man who is over 60 years old –
old enough to be called Mai’s grandfather.
“Mai was
raped many times when I worked as an immigrant laborer in Taiwan. When I
returned home, I took her to the hospital and was informed that she was 6
months pregnant,” Han recalled.
“All I
could do was send her to a relative living in the South so that she could keep
going to school before giving birth,” Han said.
Another
young mother is Ha, from the Phu Rieng Commune of Bu Gia Map District in the
southern province of Binh Phuoc. She is expecting to have her son in two
months, when she will be just 13 years old.
However,
she refuses to call the baby in her body her child thanks her great resentment
towards the man who raped her.
“It’s
not my child. It’s the child of the guy who raped me,” Ha said bluntly. “After
giving birth, I will give it to a couple in Dak Lak to keep him. I couldn’t
abort it, as I only discovered it when I was 6 months into the pregnancy.”
“I have
no food to give the baby,” Ha said.
In a
similar case juvenile mother Ngoc Nga, in the southern province of Binh Phuoc,
has also developed deep resentment against the father and son pair that has
raped her in six consecutive years.
Nga
bore her baby when she was 14 years old. She left the baby, which she refused
to call her own, for her mother.
“Sometimes
I think of my parents but I don’t want to go home since I get so upset when I
see the baby,” Nga said, sobbing violently.
TUOI
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