21 Years Ago I Was R*ped And I Gave Birth To Twins, Look At Them Now

A lady identified as Mmanti Umoh took to the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to recount how she was brutally rap*d at age 15 and how that sad ordeal led to a blessing – the birth of her handsome twin sons.

Mmanti revealed how she carried on despite the abuse and all the rejection and criticisms and the agony she faced. She urged all women who have been battered and abused to forgive their abusers and rise above it all.

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Celebrating her twin boys as they turned 21, she wrote;

“21 years ago, a 15-year-old seeking to find her path was brutally rap*d by her employer, all she had to show was a twin birthed 9 months after.

“Hid behind the childhood abuse, layers and layers of rejection, often criticized, broken, bruised, she refused to be a statistic and became the standard to many more young men and women who would be battered, abused.... TODAY.... the evening and the morning and it’s the 21st Birthday of my sons. Everything has changed since the blood.

“Happy Birthday KanKan and Dada. If I were allowed a choice of my battles, I would have chosen simpler conflicts but no, this life chose me and I will live it fully.

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“I have made a lot of mistakes but each time I look at both of you, I knew I did the right thing to keep you even when I didn’t know just how.

“To every single teenage mom, to every young person who has been themed a mistake and misfit... here I stand your validation that ‘No one and nothing has the power to define who you become but you!’ Choose what you will and desire to be.. well.

“.....To thousands of young men and women around Africa and the world who would be r*ped, battered, abused and denied a fair hearing just because they see us as kids.

“You are not voiceless, you won’t forever be hushed. They will hear us. You are bruised and beautiful.

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When you think of the R*pist Declare: I forgive you, I let you go, You inspire me To stand up against R*PE, To speak up and tell my story, I will do better, I am proud of me. Thank you.”

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