{"id":1223019,"date":"2022-10-12T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/i-started-working-as-a-prostitute-at-age-14-to-support-my-siblings-22-year-old-cries-on-set\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:31:35","slug":"i-started-working-as-a-prostitute-at-age-14-to-support-my-siblings-22-year-old-cries-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/i-started-working-as-a-prostitute-at-age-14-to-support-my-siblings-22-year-old-cries-on-set\/","title":{"rendered":"I started working as a prostitute at age 14 to support my siblings &#8211; 22-year-old cries on set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2afcbc741b174a5eb74665f9c0155298\"\/>Abena Duah is the eldest female among three children neglected by her father. They lived with their father\u2019s sister, but she could not handle the burden of three.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Abena and her siblings moved to their grandparents&#8217; house, but the situation was no different, and as the eldest female, she became responsible for her siblings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Ghetto Life Story, the 22-year-old disclosed that she left Swedru for Accra with two friends to work. Eventually, \u201cwe met a girl here who told us she makes making sleeping with men. She convinced us to join her, and we did.<\/p>\n<p>I was 14 years then. Some men pay GHS15 or GHS20. I thought I could do the sex work and save money to start a business back home. So that my siblings and I would have a source of income,\u201d she said while crying softly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abena Duah told SVTV Africa\u2019s DJ Nyaami that she regrets her choice of work. Abena indicated that she would quit the sex work once she finds support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ready to leave this place if I get the support. I want o start a soap business in Swedru,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on life in Kokomba, the young woman noted that it is full of youths smoking, drinking, stealing, and prostitution. She confessed to smoking weed, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Abena disclosed some of the dangers of sex work besides health risks. According to Abena Duah, a client almost killed her for money rituals. She added that some men threaten them with knives after sex.<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full interview below;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"22-Year-Old Cri\u00e8s On Set- I Work As A Pr\u00f2stit\u00f9te To Support My Siblings, I Started At Age 14\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDdQniCFp70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTVAfrica.com (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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They lived with their father\u2019s sister, but she could not handle the burden of three.\u00a0 As a result, Abena and her siblings moved to their grandparents&#8217; house, but the situation was no different, and as the eldest female, she became responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10991,2568,3710,7968,618,1655,6622,115,1225],"class_list":["post-1223019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-22yearold","tag-age","tag-cries","tag-prostitute","tag-set","tag-siblings","tag-started","tag-support","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}