Old wounds robbed 6 years of my marriage

  Lina Mercado thought that marrying her then boyfriend, José Patiño, at 17 would erase all her past traumas. However, to her horror things not only worsened, but her life […]

“My mum died in front of me”

Italla Warburton’s mum was feeling unwell but what could have been treated with a visit to the doctors turned into a tragic event that scarred her life for years to […]

“I jumped into the Thames to escape them!”

  What you are about to read unfolds like an excerpt from a film synopsis that follows the secret lives of some of the nation’s youths. In this case, the […]

“He said that if I said anything, my mum would die”

  Angolan native Lucia Morais was legally adopted by her aunty, secretly assaulted at the hands of her stepfather and left to make a possible life-threatening decision. Her story follows […]