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she stabbed my sister with a knife in her hand, she stabbed me with a plate,
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so she broke a plate on my head and my head burst open and just started pouring down my whole body.
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She would get pepper, open our eyes, put it inside our eyes to make us blind that we couldn't see.
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Sometimes they'll lock me in the bedroom for days and it got
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so bad that I would just start eating the wall because there would be no food, there would be nothing.
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So we were being picked into this country to become child labourers.
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Can you introduce yourself to us?
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My name is Destiny Ayo Vaughan.
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I'm currently a student studying at Queen's University.
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I'm also the founder of a nonprofit called Mindgap Ireland, which is an organization that's now focused on fighting child sexual abuse through education.
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Can you speak a bit about your childhood?
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I was originally born in Nigeria.
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When I was born in Nigeria, I never knew my biological parents.
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I lived with my auntie and we grew up in extreme poverty.
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So the home that we lived in had no doors, it had no toilets.
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There were three other families that lived with us in that home as well.
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And the only things that I knew of my parents was
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that they had moved to another country and they just didn't bring me
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but I never actually knew the reason why they didn't bring me and one day
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my auntie told me that I was going to be going to school for the first time
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but I found out
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that the only reason why I would be going to school was to meet my future husband
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and at the time I was only five years old
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and he was a good few years older than me he
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was actually way more older than me probably more in his
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20s going on to maybe his later 20s than 10 years
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younger did you understand what marriage was no i didn't understand what it was i just knew
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that i didn't want to do it
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because many girls in my village did get married off very young
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and i knew what their lives were like because
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when i would go to um so there'll be a marketplace
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and some of the girls that would get married would be working in this marketplace
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and they just looked miserable and they could never play
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so i just knew that i didn't want to be like them
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so i remember i said to my auntie i don't want to get married
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but i didn't actually know what marriage actually meant
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when you were engaged to this person like did you started
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to make a connection with him did someone force you to
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have a relationship like emotionally so what they would do was they would tell me
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so they bribed me into agreeing to it so they told me
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that I would get to go to school so that means
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that every time I was going to school after school I would have to go
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and meet him because his market was as I was walking back from school
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so I would meet him every single day after school
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and he would tell me like oh I have something for you
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so he would give me food especially coming from poverty what he had I wasn't used to it
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so he would always give me food
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so then every time I'll be going I'll be thinking i'm
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so excited to go there because i'll be getting something
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so it was kind of like they were grooming me into
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that situation to think that i was going to be a great life if i agreed to it
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not that i had a choice but
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but since he was working why didn't he like engaged a more mature woman
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so in the culture
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that i was brought up in it's very normalized for older men to marry young children
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so a lot of people there like for example my parents
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is 10 years between my parents my mom had me
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when she was my dad was 30
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and like my mom was quite young i think she had me around 19
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or something so it's very normalized for young people to get married to older men and it's more of this
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more of a
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that they don't want an older woman they want children how was he besides the fact
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that he was giving you food
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and stuff how how he was treating you yeah he was
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very nice that's the the thing I remember he was very
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very nice like he was always like giving me something
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and that's the big thing I remember every time I'll go he'll give me something
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so it's that kindness that I always received
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so in my eyes I always seen him as a good person
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but as I got older obviously I look at
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that situation completely different I don't see him as a good person I understand
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that that was just grooming and he knew better but he didn't care you stayed with him like how many years
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so what happened was
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when I was supposed to be engaged to him I was actually supposed to be married off to him
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that week yes so I was supposed to be married off to him
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that week I was engaged to be married
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and that's the reason I was allowed to go to school I had to learn how to count
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so I could work in his shop so
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that week I happened to a woman turned up to my
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house she never met her before don't know who she is
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and I just remembered
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that she offered my family a lot of money for me to meet a sister I didn't know I had
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and she was gonna bring me to meet my biological parents
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so that's the only reason why I didn't get married
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because of this stranger talking about your biological parents were they against it at all
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or no how was their reaction nobody was against it like
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nobody ever tried to stop it it was actually it's quite normalized especially in Nigeria
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and the culture that is brought up there like a lot of girls there are married at
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that age and a lot of girls there um
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so i don't know if you know about like the
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that goes on with young girls what happens is
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when you get married they end up actually cutting you as well
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so they end up like cutting you so you stay pure for your husband
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and they do that to all the girls that get married
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so if i had stayed i would have actually gone
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and down below so i can stay pure for my husband i'm sorry
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if this is a bit intimate
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but did you have any like intimate relationship with him
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or no so i was very lucky
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because i had left before we could get married to consummate the marriage
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so i i had actually never gone to actually stay with him physically
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because i had left the week of the time i was
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supposed to be given to him obviously this woman turned up at my door
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and then the next day she she bring me to a different city to go meet my sister
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so i didn't know i had a sister
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we met each other with my granny and that's the first time we've ever heard of each other
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and then she took us to another city
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which i think was lagos at the time
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and she bring us to this house
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and i remember in this house it was the complete opposite
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to what we were used to there was toilets those doors
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it was two stories there was ice cream it was things that we never seen before so we taught, oh my God, we wanna stay here forever.
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And then that's when they told us, we're bringing you to the airport the next day.
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We want you to try and get through the airport, but if anybody asks you questions, we're gonna tell you the lies that you have to tell.
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And you just keep telling them that you're gonna go meet your parents.
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And then the next day they brought us to the airport.
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They gave us envelopes that go around our necks
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a passport they gave us like a bucket of cash like a lot of cash and it was for our parents
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and then they also gave us sweets and our ticket
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so what they were basically doing was they were basically trafficking us into ireland
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so we were actually supposed to give the money to our parents to for them allowing us to go through
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but we didn't realize at the time that
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that was actually what was happening so what happened was
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if you're going to an airport
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and you're a child there has to be an adult with you
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but what they did was they didn't actually do
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that they were actually they bribed somebody to just let us through to the airport by ourselves
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because how how old were you i was five my sister was six you were five yeah
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so we traveled here completely by ourselves so
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once you arrived in ireland who who received you again
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so we got off the plane and we were still running around the airport again
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because we were just standing there
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and next you know i heard somebody shouting my name destiny stop running around
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and i turned around and the guy in front of me looked exactly like me me
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and my dad were the image of each other we looked the exact same
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so that's how i knew that that was my dad at the airport
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and they had another baby at the time
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so they had another daughter with them
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and then we went with them back to ireland well back to their house in Ireland.
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Did you feel like at home?
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Did you feel like welcomed and were they happy to receive you?
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Yeah they were happy to receive me but not my sister and I didn't really understand.
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I was like they were so happy to see me but it was like my sister didn't care.
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It was like nearly like she was a burden to be there
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which I obviously being so young I didn't really care
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but I didn't really understand do i mean so i didn't really see
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that change in how they were treating both of us at the time
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so you stayed with them like you went to school yes
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so what happened was when we got into ireland a social worker actually came to our house
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so the day before we could go to school a social worker turned up to house i don't know
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if that was because maybe somebody reported the fact
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that there was kids running around airport um
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and we were told to lie so we had to lie to the social worker
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that everything was fine blah blah blah blah which we did
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and then we ended up going to school then after
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so we went to school as normal
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but in ireland children have to go to school so
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if they don't go to school that will be reported you can't have a child
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so they were allowing us to go to school but then
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when we got back home they were locking us in the house for what reason
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so they didn't want us to go outside
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because they we were actually being brought here to work
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which obviously we didn't realize at the time
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so we were being trafficked into this country to become child laborers
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so me and my sister we've actually been working since we were children
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so my dad was a dj at the time
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and he made videos at the time as well
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so we would go with him well it was my sister first she would go at night with him
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and she would help him in work and then it changed to me
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when she left i would go with him
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and i would be helping him until like 4 a.m
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so i could leave at 10 p.m
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and i would not come back home until 4 a.m the next day
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because i was so young i didn't really understand what it was
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and i think
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because i was going with my dad i was more protected from what was happening at these parties
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so i didn't understand these parties were actually parties to traffic children
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so a lot of these parties it was men who were at these parties for the children
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and all these children that were there did not belong to the parents
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so what was happening was people were bringing children into Ireland
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that weren't their own children and the Irish government weren't checking them
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so they weren't doing DNA tests actually checked
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that these children belonged to them and
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so they would bring them to the country
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and then they would bring them to these parties where the children would be trafficked at these parties
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and then you never see them again
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and then there'll be a bunch of new children and it was like a cycle that went on for five years.
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So I was very lucky that in my situation I was more protected because my dad was the one
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kind of over a lot of these parties
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but I did witness a lot of what was going on
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and I was very young to be witnessing a lot of what was going on
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so I was very much aware of what was happening at the time.
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I remember my neighbors were knocking on my door all the time to get me to come outside.
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It was very rare I could go outside
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so they were actually trapping me in the house so they would lock me in the house.
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Sometimes they would lock me in the bedroom for days
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and it got so bad that I would just start eating the wall because there would be no food, there would be nothing.
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So I would start eating the wall in my room just to get food.
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The only time I could leave was literally
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when I was going to school or
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if my parents were leaving for a long period of time
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but we were always locked either in the house
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or in the bedroom
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and i never left how was your mom treating you she
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was more of the more physical abuser she was quite aggressive
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like her form of abuse was actually to the point where
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she it felt like she wanted to kill us she stabbed
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my sister with an on her hand she stabbed me with a plate
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so she broke a plate on my head and my head burst open
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and just started pouring down my whole body to the point
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of where to this day the wound still opens she got an iron
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and burnt me with the iron i still have the scar on my leg
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so she was very physical and
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if we refuse to do something let's say we refuse to go to one of the parties
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that they want us to go to she would get pepper
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open our eyes put it inside our eyes to make us blind
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that we couldn't see to the point where we would just agree to do it we found out later on
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that my sister actually wasn't their child so my sister was actually my cousin
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so she never actually belonged to them
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and then for me I think it was a thing of where like she had me
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when she was so young
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that I feel like she was like a victim to my dad
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and then it just continued
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so it was getting to the point where the abuse is getting
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so bad to the point of where I genuinely thought
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that my mom was going to kill me if we stayed in
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that house and I started noticing some things in the where my parents started giving us medication
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that we didn't know what it was like we would pass
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that for hours at a time the parties were coming into our house
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so they were starting to have it in their actual family home
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and it just got to the point of where
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and then they tried to marry me off two more times then
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so it got to a point where I was worried
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that it was going to happen to my siblings
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because I had a younger brother at the time
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and a younger sister so I went to school and I told a friend what was happening
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and her mom was actually a teacher
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so she told her mom what was happening
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and then her mom was the one that called social services
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and then they took me out of the house then well from school they just never brought me back home
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so i was put into foster care because of child abuse
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and neglect but they didn't know about the trafficking
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or the child labor at the time
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so the way the court case happened in iron is very different
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when you're put into care you don't always get a court case you just get put into care
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and your parents just lose custody so that's what happened with me
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so they didn't find out a little bit of my story until i was 16
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so i was a good bit into foster care system
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and even still then because it was so i was a lot older
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and they hadn't searched my home when i went to the foster care the videotapes
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that my dad took of all the abuse
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that they were doing to other children they got rid of it
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so the evidence was completely gone so they couldn't bring my case to court.
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The family I lived with were really good, they always treated me as part of their own and so I was very lucky in that sense, they really did look after me.
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I think the part
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that I found really hard was it's very hard to go
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from living in an African family to then live in somewhere where you're the only black person, it's a very big cultural change and I think
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because I was somebody who was going through a lot of depression at the time, anxiety at the time trauma a lot of children do not understand
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that so i experienced like
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so much bullying to the point of where i feel like mentally i was just getting even worse
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and more drained like i remember i would lock myself in my bedroom for like days
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and i would not come out i wouldn't even eat
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so i was treating myself and how i was being treated
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when i was back home because that was what was normal to me.
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I think for me I wish that somebody had actually believed me
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when I first spoke up about it and I don't know
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if that's like and I wish I actually did fight more to somebody to listen to my story
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because multiple times social workers did go into the house
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and every time they'll ask me
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if there was something wrong I would just say no
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so I wish
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that the younger version of me just said no some something
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is wrong i wish like i had a stronger voice at the time
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and i do understand that i was a child but i do wish that i did say something was wrong
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so i was 17 or 18
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when i was put into as a residential um unit for kids in care
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but i when i left i was 18 okay
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so you said you you had like a younger sibling yes
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since they lost the custody of you did they lost the custody of the younger ones also yes
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so they lost the custody of the younger two
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but then my mom had another baby and she got to keep
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that child so but everybody else they lost custody of
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but my siblings still see my parents i'm the only one that has no contact
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so what do you feel was taken away from you during
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that time i definitely my childhood i think
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that my child has definitely been taken away i don't think i've ever gone a childhood at all
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and i And I think as well, even sometimes peace of mind, I feel like my head is always racing and I carried
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so much guilt because I feel like so many children suffered because I didn't see anything sooner.
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So I do feel the guilt of that if I'm being honest.
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But yeah, I think that it's just knowing
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that I would never have anything good to say about my childhood because I didn't get a childhood at all.
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It's something that's really sad for me.
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So when I was 19 I ended up being homeless, so I remember I had all my stuff in a black sack
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and I had nowhere to go
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and I was calling all of my friends to be like can I stay with you
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and bear in mind at the time I was still doing my Leaving Cert
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which is like your high school degree so I was still doing
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that and one of my friends said oh you can come
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and stay with me
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so I went to go stay with her I think I had like 10 pounds in my bank account
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that was supposed to last me for a month
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and I just remember sleeping there
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and thinking this life is just not what I thought it would be
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so I was actually couch surfing for like nearly a year with my friends
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while I was also traveling for an hour to try
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and go into uni because I had actually failed uni
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so I couldn't I didn't have the grades to go to university
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so I couldn't work because I didn't have any grades I had no skills
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and I had nowhere to stay
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so I had to kind of like figure it out a little bit
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so I worked I walked into like a charity shop
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and I asked him I was like would you give me a job
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if I work for free would you give me
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so I can learn skills basically so Concern agreed to give me a volunteer job
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and I worked there for like four months
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and then I applied for PLC
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so PLC is like a college you can apply for
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if you don't have the right amount of grades or
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if you just want to do something else before you go to university
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so I applied for there while I was also working in the shop
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and then I got in so I did
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that to get me into university
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and then I went to university then the next year yeah
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so when I got into uni I received a scholarship it was a three-year scholarship for every year
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that I was in university and it was like a lot of money
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and I just wanted the scholarship just to prove to myself
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that I could get it
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but I really wanted to use the money to tackle an issue
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so I started Mindgap Ireland which was a social project
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that collects anonymous stories and I was the first in Ireland to do
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that and then what I would do was I would get people to reach out they would share their stories
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and then we would pay for them to get therapy
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because at the time you could be in the waiting list for like five years the list was really long
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so I would pay for it so they could go
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and get therapy and we pay for like six sessions for each person
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and we were doing that I did that for like three to four years
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and then I also did sponsorship for young girls to gain education
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so it's called sponsor a girl and I did
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that for a year where I sponsored two
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or three children to go again education
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so they don't become child brides as well
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and that's basically what we do we collect anonymous stories we've collected over 10k anonymous stories in seven years
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and every single story we collect is from a non-reporter
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and we're turning non-reporters into reporters into statistics
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and what we found out of
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that 10k 80% were under the age of 16 as young as five years old
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when they experienced the sexual violence and we were the first point of contact to ever share their story.
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Even when I came to Ireland the amount of times
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that I was told that my parents told me
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that they would kill me or they would send me back to Nigeria if I ever told anybody
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even
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when I went to the foster care the amount of times
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the government in Ireland have tried to keep my story a
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secret has been insane like they've tried to silence me
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so many times in Ireland because my story looks really bad
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because they have to explain how they wrote a letter to
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my parents allowing for their daughter to come into the country
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so I have a government letter that says
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that I can come into the country but my sister wasn't their child
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so how was she allowed in the country
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and why were they paid off nobody checked the airport to
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see how we got into the country in the first place
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and then as well the amount of social workers
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that came into the house multiple times nobody did anything
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so i think it holds them accountable
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and they don't want to be held accountable i've written letters to the government
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and the government actually wrote back to me i met up with them
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and they said to me trafficking is not popular in ireland only three percent of children get trafficked
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and that's what they said to me when i told them my story
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and then they never spoke to me again i ran to other governments where i have text messages messages
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and they literally don't even reply they don't say anything they don't take it seriously
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or they don't take it seriously
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because at the end of the day they see it as
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an african issue not an irish issue even though i've told
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them the amount of children like i'll give an example the
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time i lived with my parents i can generally say i
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watched at least at least in a month 50 children at those parties get trafficked
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and I was there for five years and all African children because nobody cares about the African children.
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If it was a group of white children from Ireland
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that this was happening to there would be an uproar about
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it they'd be like well why is their Irish children going missing
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and nobody's talking about them but
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when it's black children from Africa it seemed more like well
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send them back to their country is not a problem here even before it came out in public
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and they do not care and the people that I've told it to is like the minister for children
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the minister of justice and the people
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that should care don't like I was angry
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because it was kind of like how dare you try to tell me
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that this is not a problem because if people were to be
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if people were here watching you talk like this you wouldn't say any of these things it's
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because we're one-to-one and nothing's recorded that you don't think it's a problem
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and it was obviously the guy
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that I met up with was a man he was the
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it was for the minister of i think justice at the time
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which was a woman she didn't even meet up with me
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because it wasn't a big enough problem for her
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but then the next day i seen her posting about um
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advocating for children of sexual abuse even though she literally looked at my letter
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and said i'm not going to meet up with you
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but then the guy
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that she sent to meet up with me literally was on
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the phone call says to me this is not a problem From all what you told me, what hurt you the most?
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I think for me, it's definitely how much of my story they've made invisible.
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It's literally like I don't exist.
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So like my government, my, I'm sorry, documents are completely fake.
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Where I'm born is not, I wasn't even born in Nigeria.
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But my passport says, my document says Nigeria, my birth certificate is completely fake
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so everything about me is fake everything about my sister is fake
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and it's like we don't exist if you were to look at the government
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and history of us we literally it's like we literally don't exist our story doesn't exist
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but that's the way they've made it into the system so
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when we come out we tell our stories we're literally invisible people that don't exist
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i think for me i think it's a government issue at the time where the government knew
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that this was a problem in the airports
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and it was a problem in Ireland but I think that
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if they had said
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that this is actually happening in Ireland they would look like
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another way everybody says traffic only happens in developing countries well
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then they would have to say well no that's not the case it's happening here
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so I think
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that it's a government issue with them allowing children to be
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trafficked into their country that's the problem do you think it's still happening yes I know it's still happening
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because when i was in foster care i had just left there was actually a child
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that i seen that it was happening to
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because i actually spoke to her and i wrote to my social worker
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and asked her to visit the house and she didn't and then that child went missing next day
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and your dad is how what is he doing now he's
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a taxi driver they i got no justice for what happened to me
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because it doesn't that's the way it happens in ireland like
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if you get pointed care your parents just go roaming free
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they can have more children they get to just work and nothing happens
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yeah i think like for me is knowing that i would never get
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that closure i would never get
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that justice at all i never even get to know who i really am
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because right now i don't know who i really am i think for me it makes me angry knowing
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that they're roaming around free and they just get to live their life
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but at the same time i feel like i just had to let go of it
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because i'm never never going to get that answer like i'm just not
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and because i was so young when it happened as well i've had
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so many years of having to deal with it
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that i feel like it's built a lot of strength in
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me to be able to just move on without the closure
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like i think this is a hard one for people to understand
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but i think i would say to her like genuinely like i'm generally
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so sorry that she had to go through that as a child
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because i feel like people don't understand what it's like
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until you go through it like I think it's
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so sometimes easy to see somebody as this villain
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and I see what the things that she's done wrong but
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when you're brought up in that culture it's very normal like it really is
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and I just feel so sorry for her that nobody helped her
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and now she's turned into the villain of her own story
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I think for me it's very scary to tell somebody when something's happening, especially when you're young and somebody's threatening you your life.
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But it's so important that you speak up for yourself
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or tell a trusted person because it's the only thing that will free you from that situation.
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And I wish I did say something earlier.
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So I would say to anybody that is still a victim now to tell somebody
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if they can what is happening or try to get their hands on the phone, anything at all to try to get out of that situation that they're in.
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Sobre esta lição
Nesta lição, você vai praticar shadow speak (imitação de fala) com um vídeo que conta a história de Destiny, uma jovem que superou adversidades. Você vai melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e a prática de conversação em inglês, focando na fluidez e na compreensão de uma fala emocional e contínua. A história é contada em um tom reflexivo, com pausas naturais, o que ajuda a treinar a escuta e a imitação.
Vocabulário e frases chave
- Child labourer: Trabalhador infantil. Exemplo: "Ela foi levada para ser uma child labourer."
- Grooming: Manipulação (para exploração). Exemplo: "Eles usaram comida para fazer o grooming dela."
- Extreme poverty: Pobreza extrema. Exemplo: "Ela cresceu em extreme poverty, sem portas nem banheiro."
- Bribed: Subornou. Exemplo: "A tia bribed ela com a promessa de escola."
- Miserable: Miserável. Exemplo: "As meninas casadas pareciam miserable."
Dicas de prática
Para dominar o shadow speech, siga estes passos: Primeiro, assista o vídeo sem parar para entender o contexto. Depois, reproduza pequenos trechos (5-10 segundos) e imite imediatamente a pronúncia, a entonação e o ritmo. A fala de Destiny é pausada, com emoção, então preste atenção nas pausas após palavras como "poverty" ou "married". Isso ajuda a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e a fluidez. Repita cada trecho até sentir que a fala flui naturalmente. Lembre-se: o shadowspeak é sobre a imitação completa, não apenas as palavras. Use essa oportunidade para praticar a conversação em inglês, como se estivesse contando a história você mesma. Você vai notar a diferença rapidamente!
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Frases condicionais if + oração, will/would + verbo — uma condição e seu resultado | if there was something wrong I would just · if I work for free would you |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | we've ever heard · has definitely been taken · we've collected |
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | being picked · was born · was brought |
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | Ireland, which is · men who were · somebody who was |
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.