Pastor rescues teenager from prostitution
Published: 2013 September 14 09:27:15 (5766 Views)
Social workers in South Africa have recommended that a 16-year-old girl who sold her body to provide for her child and her three siblings should go into foster care.
Ronnie Masilela, Mpumalanga Social development spokesman, said they have realised the girl and her family need extra attention.
He said:"We have started giving them social relief but we are going to start the process of placing them in foster care."
The children live in Mashonamini Village near Hazyview.
Masilela said the foster care process would be done under the supervision of the kids' grandmother.
"We know it takes time but we will try our level best to speed up the matter," he said.
The girl used to make R1 500 a week sleeping with older men in order to feed her daughter and three siblings, now aged 9, 13 and 15.
"I never had any childhood because I had to take care of my sick mother and my siblings while other children were safe in the care of their parents," she said.
"I don't want to go back to that life because today I'm God's new creation and I am receiving help from my community."
The girl's mother died in July. She said: "Our father has not been around.
"Looking at my sickly and weak mother lying on the sponge mattress with no food, I was torn apart.
"My siblings cried daily because of hunger and could only turn to me so I felt I had no choice but to sell my body for a living."
Her life turned around when a local pastor visited the family to find out how they were coping since their mother's death.
- Dailysun
Ronnie Masilela, Mpumalanga Social development spokesman, said they have realised the girl and her family need extra attention.
He said:"We have started giving them social relief but we are going to start the process of placing them in foster care."
The children live in Mashonamini Village near Hazyview.
Masilela said the foster care process would be done under the supervision of the kids' grandmother.
"We know it takes time but we will try our level best to speed up the matter," he said.
The girl used to make R1 500 a week sleeping with older men in order to feed her daughter and three siblings, now aged 9, 13 and 15.
"I never had any childhood because I had to take care of my sick mother and my siblings while other children were safe in the care of their parents," she said.
"I don't want to go back to that life because today I'm God's new creation and I am receiving help from my community."
The girl's mother died in July. She said: "Our father has not been around.
"Looking at my sickly and weak mother lying on the sponge mattress with no food, I was torn apart.
"My siblings cried daily because of hunger and could only turn to me so I felt I had no choice but to sell my body for a living."
Her life turned around when a local pastor visited the family to find out how they were coping since their mother's death.
- Dailysun
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