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I Started Selling My Body To Men After What Happened To Me –

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I grew up where I saw women selling themselves every night. Once the street lights come on, you’ll see them walking one after the other to the where the lights shine the brightest. They were like light bugs. They dot around the light as if it’s the light that gives them the energy to do what they do. My mom sold food by the streets at night.

I would be next to my mom watching these girls do their business. I spoke to some of them. A few of them became friends and they asked of me whenever they came around to buy stuff. When their dresses were too revealing, my mom would ask me to cover my eyes. I saw her struggle. She didn’t want me there but if I wasn’t, who would help her sell? My mom was doing life all alone with four kids. I was the eldest. My dad disappeared because he couldn’t stand us…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

We were more than he bargained for so when push came to shove, he disappeared and never looked back. My uncle, my father’s elder brother was there for us until he too stopped caring for us. I was a child. I didn’t know why he stopped but I remember my mom warning me never to go to my uncle for assistance. She never said why. She said, “Don’t ever step foot in that your uncle’s house. He’s no longer for us.” When I grew up, I got the whole story from another relative.

My uncle wanted to have an affair with my mom but my mom didn’t want to. One day, he nearly raped my mom when she went there for money my uncle had promised her. That was the point my mom felt the danger in associating with my uncle so she decided to cut us off from him. Once he was gone, life was all about suffering. We were four. It wasn’t easy.

Mom had to do it all alone. I dropped out of school four times before I finally completed SHS. I was a smart kid. I would drop out for a year, go back and still kick the ass of the many subjects we were doing. It was hard but Mom tried her best. Before completing SHS, she told me my education would end at SHS because my other siblings also needed to have a bite of education.

I wasn’t angry. She had done her best and all I could do was applaud her. I knew I didn’t want my education to end at SHS. To me it was the starting point so right after SHS, I travelled to live with an aunt who I thought could help me. She was married to a rich man. She could singlehandedly take care of my education and make my life better but she didn’t.

Once I was there, she added me to her domestic staff. I swept while the househelp slept. I cooked while her children went to school. I washed while she and her husband remained in bed. I woke up with the rooster but I didn’t crow. I watched it crow to announce the morning but my morning had started long ago. I went to her husband and pleaded with him to help me go back to school.

The man listened to me with interesting eyes and said kind words. He discussed the possibility of me going to school and the conversation I had with him with my aunt and my aunt got angry. “How dare you talk about education? Am I the one who gave birth to you? Don’t you know your mother?” The relationship was never the same again. I told my mom I wanted to come home. She told me, “There’s nothing here to come for. You’ll suffer when you come.

You say you’re suffering there but at least you eat good food and sleep in a beautiful house. It’s better than here so make it work for you there.” I wanted more than eating good food. I belonged to a beautiful house but wasn’t part of the home the beautiful house provided. One dawn the rooster crowed without me. I was still in bed thinking of what to do next.

I was in bed until the sun rose. My aunt came to my room with rage. I was too peaceful that day to allow her rage to get to me. She ranted, insulted and physically held my hand and pulled me out of bed. I got up wearing a smile. I knew the next crow of the rooster wouldn’t meet me in that house. I sauntered around the house until evening when they were sleeping.

I parked my things and left the house quietly. I went to live with a friend. I was so unimportant to them that no one came looking for me. She didn’t even tell my mom I’d left the house. The only thing that was going to miss me was the rooster. It had to do life alone without me. No one would care about the significance of its crow. I was gone for good. Just as my mom said, there’s suffering everywhere. You have to choose your poison and hope it doesn’t kill you immediately.

It was hard to eat at my friend’s house. I got a job at a fuel station. The pay couldn’t even pay for my daily transport to work. I got a job as a waitress. The disrespect and maltreatment from customers and owners were enough to stifle the soul of the Invictus. I went to work with my friend. She was working in a hotel so I went with her to just watch her doing her work.

On my first day with her, I saw prostitutes walking the street doing what they do best. It reminded me of my childhood. Those light bugs and how the light gave them energy to do their work. I missed them and missed my childhood. Before going to bed that night, I’d already chosen the path I was going to walk the next day. Before the street lights came on, I ironed the only dress I thought would look sexy on me. I picked up my friend’s small bag, bought a few condoms with the little I had and walked to the street. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

My friend looked at me and said, “You look like a nun compared to those girls. Who’ll take you seriously?” I answered, “Watch me.” So it started. One man a night, two men a day, one for short and one for the whole night. I was only going to do it for a week, raise some money and start something with it. One month later, I was still there, a little light bug growing to become a mother worm. The money was good. It was so easy to make it and since it was easy to get, you easily let go of it.

I bought more dresses. I bought drinks. I bought drugs. I was learning the tricks to be able to sleep with more men on a night. Six months later, I was sure I was made for prostitution but it took me too long to discover my call. My friend looked at the money I was making and she quit her hotel job to become a light bug. The two of us were unstoppable. We would count our money in the morning and laugh at poverty.

By midday, we would be broke again. It turned out, it wasn’t the light that energized these ladies. It was the sense of broke that made them hit the street every night so they could be rich by morning and go broke again by midday. I sat next to a man in his car who was intrigued by the way I got him to patronize me. He said, “You’re very good at selling.

If you can sell yourself this way, then why don’t you consider selling other things too?” I responded, “It’s easy to sell myself because I’m right here and you know what you’ll get immediately you pick me. All other things are hard to sell.” He asked me to give it a try and see. I asked what I should sell and he answered, “Hawk something. Go from office to office and sell to the guys there.” He gave me an idea. So I started selling things men could buy. Perfume at first. Watches followed.

Khakis and then belts. It turned out a lot of men didn’t want to buy what a lady holds in her hand. They rather want the hand that holds the item. Those I liked, I gave myself to them and they became boyfriends. Through that job, I met a man old enough to be my dad. He slept with me and decided to keep me for himself alone so he gave me a job. That way, I would be in a cage so he could feed me with grains. He wasn’t a bad man. Some days I was scared I was going to kill him.

He didn’t have the energy but always wanted to go three rounds. I started building my dreams from his pocket so I would be somewhere by the time he finally dies on me. I spoke to him about school and he told me he would fund it. I spoke to him about my friend Aggie and he was ready to help her. Aggie got a job too but she later went back to the street because it was free out there. God being so good, this man didn’t die so I was able to complete a certificate course that I used to enter the university.

He was at my graduation. We took a lot of pictures I couldn’t post because of his family. After the university, I was promoted. I was stable and was ready to start a family and have kids of my own. I set my mom up. My siblings were able to dream a dream because I was there for them. The man who came into my life was a pastor. He wanted to marry me but my past and who I had become didn’t allow me to marry him. I told him I wasn’t good for him.

I begged him to let me be that sheep that got missing out of the hundred. He said, “But Jesus left the ninety-nine to pursue that sheep because it was very important to the flock.” I followed him to church. It was in that same church that I met Moses.

The man who a year and a half later married me. This pastor was the officiating minister of our wedding. He didn’t marry me but married me away to a member of his church.

A Chat With The Founder Not too long ago, I was a light bug, circling around lights for energy. Today, I’m here writing this story as a testimony to faith, hard choices and what God decides to use his army for. I’ve done a year already in marriage.

I get scared of the past often. I’m always tempted to regret my past but without my past, this present wouldn’t be here with me. One bad choice after another led me to who I am today so I can only be grateful for the hand that led me away from who I used to be to who I am today

 

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Guy Fawkes’ punishment was one of the most severe in English history – here’s what happens when a body is hung, drawn and quartered

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Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering. Crispijn van de Passe the Elder/ Wikimedia Commons

After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering. According to the Treason Act 1351 , this punishment involved…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

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  • Michelle SpearProfessor of Anatomy, University of Bristol

That you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive cut down, your privy members shall be cut off and your bowels taken out and burned before you, your head severed from your body and your body divided into four quarters to be disposed of at the King’s pleasure.

This process aimed not only to inflict excruciating pain on the condemned, but to serve as a deterrent – demonstrating the fate of those who betrayed the Crown. While Fawkes reportedly jumped from the gallows – which meant he avoided the full extent of his punishment – his co-conspirators apparently weren’t so lucky.

By dissecting each stage of this medieval punishment from an anatomical perspective, we can understand the profound agony each of them endured.

Torture for confession

Before his public execution on January 31 1606, Fawkes was tortured to force a confession about his involvement in the “gunpowder plot”.

The Tower of London records confirm that King James I personally authorised “the gentler tortures first”. Accounts reveal that Fawkes was stretched on the rack – a device designed to slowly pull the limbs in opposite directions. This stretching inflicted severe trauma on the shoulders, elbows and hips, as well as the spine.

The forces exerted by the rack probably exceeded those required for joint or hip dislocation under normal conditions.

Substantive differences between Fawkes’ signatures on confessions between November 8 and shortly before his execution may indicate the amount of nerve and soft tissue damage sustained. It also illustrates how remarkable his final leap from the gallows was.

An engraving depicting a person being tortured on the rack.
The rack slowly pulled a prisoner’s limbs in opposite directions. Wellcome Collection/ Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA

Stage 1: hanging (partial strangulation)

After surviving the torture of the rack, Fawkes and his gang faced the next stage of their punishment: hanging. But this form of hanging only partially strangled the condemned – preserving their consciousness and prolonging their suffering.

Partial strangulation exerts extreme pressure on several critical neck structures. The hyoid bone , a small u-shaped structure above the larynx, is prone to bruising or fracture under compression .

Simultaneously, pressure on the carotid arteries restricts blood flow to the brain, while compression of the jugular veins causes pooling of blood in the head – probably resulting in visible haemorrhages in the eyes and face.

Because the larynx and trachea (both essential for airflow) are partially obstructed, this makes breathing laboured. Strain on the cervical spine and surrounding muscles in the neck can lead to tearing, muscle spasms or dislocation of the vertebra – causing severe pain. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Fawkes brought his agony to a premature end by leaping from the gallows. Accounts from the time tell us:

His body being weak with the torture and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder – yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck by the fall.

This probably caused him to suffer a bilateral fracture of his second cervical vertebra, assisted by his own bodyweight – an injury known as the “hangman’s fracture” .

Stage 2: Drawing (disembowelment)

After enduring partial hanging, the victim would then be “drawn” – a process which involved disembowelling them while still alive. This act mainly targeted the organs of the abdominal cavity – including the intestines, liver and kidney, as well as major blood vessels such as the abdominal aorta.

The physiological response to disembowelment would have been immediate and severe. The abdominal cavity possesses a high concentration of pain receptors – particularly around the membranous lining of the abdomen . When punctured, these pain receptors would have sent intense pain signals to the brain, overwhelming the body’s capacity for pain management . Shock would soon follow due to the rapid drop in blood pressure caused by massive amounts of blood loss.

Stage 3: quartering (dismemberment)

Quartering was also supposed to be performed while the victim was still alive. Though no accounts exist detailing at what phase victims typically lost consciousness during execution, it’s highly unlikely many survived the shock of being drawn.

So, at this stage, publicity superseded punishment given the victim’s likely earlier demise. Limbs that were removed from criminals were preserved by boiling them with spices. These were then toured around the country to act as a deterrent for others.

Though accounts suggest Fawkes’s body parts were sent to “the four corners of the United Kingdom”, there is no specific record of what was sent where. However, his head was displayed in London .

Traitor’s punishment

The punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering was designed to be as anatomically devastating as it was psychologically terrifying. Each stage of the process exploited the vulnerabilities of the human body to create maximum pain and suffering, while also serving as a grim reminder of the consequences of treason.

This punishment also gives us an insight into how medieval justice systems used the body as a canvas for social and political messaging. Fawkes’s fate, though unimaginable today, exemplifies the extremes to which the state could, and would, go to maintain control, power and authority over its subjects.

The sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering was officially removed from English law as part of the Forfeiture Act of 1870 .

 

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OPINION: 4 Children Who Were Sentenced to life imprisonment At A Young Age And what They Did

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There are many unusual things happening across the world. Children are charming and lovely, yet others are really dangerous and have been involved in a variety of illegal activities in society.

In this post, we’ll look at four children who were condemned to life in jail Please keep in mind that some of these children are now adults…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

1. Joshua Phillips:

Joshua Phillips stabbed his neighbor’s eight-year-old daughter and put the girl’s body under his bed at home. After eight days, his mother discovered the body.

Joshua Phillips was fourteen years old when he committed this act, according to reports, and he was sentenced to life in jail.

Take a look at how Joshua Phillips is now.

2. Eric Smith:

Eric Smith, according to sources, was condemned to life in jail many years ago. Eric Smith was just 13 years old when he hit a 4-year-old boy with a rock and killed him.

Following multiple conversations with Eric, he stated that he was bullied by several senior kids at his school and that he killed the youngster because he was irritated and upset. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

3. Lionel Tate:

Lionel Tate was one of the youngest people to get a life sentence.

According to sources, when he was 13 years old, Lionel Tate killed his neighbor’s six-year-old daughter.

Lionel Tate claimed he was boxing with the young girl.

4. Brian Lee Draper:

Brian Lee Draper was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for murdering a classmate, according to reports.

The murder was committed by Brian Lee Draper and his friend Torey Adamcik, who was sixteen years old at the time.

Parents should always endeavor to teach their children how to be good children, as well as pray for them.

 

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Lady Caught Feeding Neighbor’s Baby With Faeces & Urine Speaks From Prison, Gives This Ugly Reason

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A woman named Stella Namwanje was arrested in Uganda for allegedly committing an atrocious act against her neighbor’s baby. Reports indicate that she was caught on video defecating and urinating on the infant before feeding him the waste. This shocking behavior has drawn widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the child’s welfare…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

The incident took place in the Binyonyi A area of the Nyendo-Mukungwe division. Local authorities acted swiftly after the disturbing footage circulated on social media, prompting community outrage. The police have since taken Namwanje into custody to investigate the circumstances surrounding her actions and ensure the safety of the child.

The case has sparked discussions about the need for stronger measures to protect vulnerable individuals, especially children, from abuse. It highlights the alarming reality of child torture and the psychological issues that may drive such behavior. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

As the investigation unfolds, the community is rallying to support the affected family and prevent similar incidents in the future. The legal proceedings against Namwanje will likely focus on the extent of her actions and the necessary repercussions for such a heinous crime.

 

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