Liberia: Girl, 16, Explains Ordeal of Being Sexually Assaulted Multiple Times By Her Own Father

Monrovia — Lea, 16, (not her real name), recalls how her own biological father, Darcy Ben, who is in his 60s, has molested and raped her more than once. She now wants the law to punish her father.

Speaking in an exclusive phone interview with FrontPageAfrica, Lea narrated that the burden of living with the feeling that her father "can have sex with me has become unbearable to keep".

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