Amira Was the Envy of Her Peer Group at School. None of the Other 14 Year Olds in Her Year

Amira was the envy of her peer group at school. None of the other 14 year olds in her year had a 28year old boyfriend that met them at the school gates driving a BMW. The other girls didn’t get perfume or the latest iPhone like she did. And none of the other girls had gone ‘all the way’ with a boy, let alone a man.

Amira was happy to sleep with Jed her boyfriend, after all he constantly told her ‘she was the one’ and he said he was crazy about her. It wasn’t long before Jed was picking up Amira in his BMW and taking her back to his flat, they would listen to music, smoke weed and have sex. Amira felt special she felt Jed treated her like an adult.

But things started to change when Jed started inviting his friends over to the flat and asking Amira to be kind to them. She didn’t like this but didn’t know what to do. When she said she didn’t want to, Jed threatenedher saying she was ungrateful for the gifts he had given her and if she really loved him she should do as she is told. It wasn’t long before Amira was having sex with many men in one evening.

Jed starting collecting Amira from her house, making her skip school he would then drive her to other flats where she was forced to have sex with other men some aged 65, men on drugs, men who would hurt her and often men who got excited if she struggled and cried. Amira witnessed the men giving Jed money. Amira felt so ashamed she hated herself and her life.

Jed threatened Amira saying he would take her younger sister if she told anyone. He had videos of her and said he would show them to her family and her friends at school. .

Amria was trapped the only worse thing from what was happening was the thought of Jed taking her little sister and hurting her.

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