Aishatu Alhassan has recounted some choices that led her into a life of prostitution and drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aishatu disclosed that she lived with her mom and stepfather, but she never experienced fatherly love. Hence, she stayed out with friends and eventually learnt how to smoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI could stay out for three days with friends at the ghetto. I began smoking at age 11. When people told my mom about my smoking, she could not believe it. I was raped on two occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first time was at age 12. Three years later, I was gang raped by four guys while on my way home from a wake keeping. They pulled a knife on me,\u201d she recounted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eventually, Aisha moved to Accra as a teenager to work but got pregnant after a few months. Six months after childbirth, Aisha\u2019s mother took the baby from her because she was never present and still smoked while breastfeeding.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy baby daddy did not accept the pregnancy, so I had to go home to my mother. My mom took me to the police station once because I wasn\u2019t taking care of the baby. I respect what she did,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Aisha, she came back to Accra to work to support her baby. However, she went back to the ghetto and began working as a sex worker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is normal for someone to call me a prostitute because once you are not married, it is no different. I only started prostitution after I gave birth. I\u2019m not okay, but there is nothing I can do about it,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kindly watch the full interview below;<\/p>\n