When I was 11yrs old a family friend use to come and drink kava at home. The day I told my family about my abuse by this man no one believed me. They acted as if I was the wrong one. I was never heard.
Today I have 2 girls, one is fifteen already and people always think that I have a bad heart because I don’t allow visitors to sleep over even if it’s a family member but I don’t ever care of what they say. What happened to me has made me listen to my children always. I always remind them that they can tell me anything and I will listen and help them. It is a sad reality in Fiji that serious cases which involves some people we know or who are close to us are being treated as nothing or that they didn’t mean too.