Betrayal: A story of child sexual abuse

It is very rare for a child to speak directly about the abuse, thus it’s the adults responsibility to be alert to red flags in their conversations and actions. (Posed picture for Youth 2).

Every time she heard the sound of a motorcycle whizzing by her house, nine-­year-­old Latifah would hide inside a cupboard in her room, shaking with fear.

She was terrified that the sound meant that the man she feared the most, ­a well-respected religious leader in her village, was approaching and that she would be assaulted yet again.