What do you do when a trusted relative consistently rapes you and warns you not to tell anyone? What happens if you are raped by armed robbers and get pregnant? Would it be okay to abort the unborn child? Can boys also be sexually abused?
What if you have an adopted parent who provides for you but sexually abuses you? These were innocent but very pertinent questions presented to Queeneth Orok, winner 2008/2009 Carnival Calabar Pageant when she went on a 'Casual Sexual Abstinence Advocacy tour' to secondary schools in Calabar. The objective of this tour was to sensitise teenagers to the dangers of premarital sex.
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