23.12.15

Boko Haram victim ostracized by community for having rapist's baby


Aisha Musa was kidnapped by Boko Haram
militants who killed her family, and forced her at
gunpoint to become a jihadi bride.
"They show you a gun, and then whatever
they say you have to follow their
command," Musa said.
She told CBS News her captor would lock her in
during the day. At night, he would rape her.
"He would go on operations and kill people,
and then come home and force me to be
with him."
Musa was rescued by the Cameroon military, but
the worst of her ordeal was finding out she was
pregnant by her rapist.
"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 never saw the Chibok girls but often heard
the fighters speak of them. Like many of the
other girls, they too were forced to marry the
militants.
In a double injustice, many are now stigmatized
by their community. Girls like Musa are regarded
as spoiled goods, her baby a very public reminder
of a cruel and unfair shame.
Aisha Musa has been living in the crowded
Minawao refugee camp for seven months. She
survives by selling corn meal at the local market.

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