By Hafsat Muhammad Yola
When a girl decides to report sexual harassment or assault, the first people to dissuade her will be her parents most especially her mother. Be it because she doesn’t want her daughter’s image to get tarnished in the eyes of future potential suitors or their families
These may serve as a weakening point to a girls voice so early that it crumbles her ambitions, courage, vision, happiness and reduce her to a submissive timid
robot.
These pedophiles start abusing girls at a very tender age and are usually trusted family relatives a girl sees every day
It escalates when a girl reaches adolescence. she becomes extremely self-conscious because of creeps that prey on her innocent body. That might even be the basis she’s an introvert but parents hardly pay much attention
Still when she’s adult men say crude and dirty things to her in the guise of compliments and coarse her to illicit affairs that violates her self esteem
An she’s not too old to be groped by a teenage boy who could be her son’s mate. These results in much psychological trauma faced by the female gender and they’re too ashamed to confide in anyone
Dear women, young or old, beautiful or less, white or black, Muslim or Christian, no matter what your race, culture, or value is your body is a sacred temple; a gift from God that you dare not allow any man to defile!
Hafsat Muhammad Yola studies at the Faculty Of Communication Bayero University Kano.