Stepmom has turned my dad against me

Dear Pastor,

I am a 19-year-old girl who has been undergoing a lot from I was 15. In fact, it started when I was much younger.

My dad was in England when I was a child. He got deported because he was doing drugs. That is what I heard. He returned to Jamaica and was a father figure to me.

He treated me like a princess. He showed me all the love a child could ever ask from a parent. He made sure that I was well fed and that I was comfortable.

My dad also made sure that I slept well and my hair was properly groomed. He would get up every morning and take me for a walk before I went to school.

He was strict when it came to bookwork. He was very brilliant. He got many subjects. He taught me well.

To cut a long story short, a couple of years after, he met a woman and got involved with her. She has five children, none of them are his. He cared for all of them, school and everything.

When we were living in Mandeville, my dad came home and my stepmother told him something and he came and boxed me just like that. I was about nine.

One day my stepmother took me to a man in Manchester and she talked to the man, and he carried me into the bathroom and did some terrible stuff to me.

SALT IN MY VAGINA

My stepmother told my dad that she needed to bring me back to him because salt is in my vagina. My stepmother has bewitched my father so that he does not know what is really happening to me.

My father has become so broke that he pawned some of the things he brought back from abroad, even some of the things he brought for me.

My stepmother and my father had me moving from place to place. I changed many schools and some of my teachers were very concerned. I tried to get work to help myself.

Once I went to a gas station to get a job and I was told that I needed an ID. Tears flowed because I do not have a birth certificate.

One day, I was so hungry that I phoned a man that I had a relationship with, and I asked him to send me some money because I was hungry. My father's life has gone to the dogs.

He was living in an old house without doors. I couldn't sleep. He couldn't help himself. He stayed home and he saw me carry in money and buying food and he didn't ask where I got money form.

He used to beat me with a long stick. I called another man that I was involved with to come and get me and to take me to the Princess Margaret Hospital.

I got an infection. I never thought that could happen to me. My father's babymother took away his money. I then moved to an apartment where this man put me.

My father took away all my money. I had to sleep with different men to survive and to go to school. I had to clean people's houses and I also did other types of work.

ABORTION

I became pregnant and I had nothing to eat. I went to my mother and she found out that I was pregnant. She encouraged me to have an abortion, which I did.

I was all over the place trying to get a place to lay my head. My grandmother had a house in a bad area. She moved in the house so that I could get a place to live.

I saw an ad asking for girls to work at a massage spa and earn $50,000 weekly. I went there, but refused the job because of what I heard.

I eventually went back because I was in a position where I had no food or help. Many times, I tried begging on the streets for hours.

My dad came to live at the house with my stepmother and children. Not even my grandmother can talk to my stepmother. She will tell my grandmother to shut up, and she went as far as to curse her.

Please help me. I am attending a school now. I am asking if anyone can provide a room for me and help to push me further.

I thank you in advance. God bless you.

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Dear Writer,

You have indeed suffered much, but you have ambition. With some help, you will do well.

I would suggest that you call and make an appointment to see me before visiting my office. I would suggest, if it were possible, that you ask your grandmother to accompany you. We will do our best to help you.

In the meantime, keep close to your grandmother. Pray and attend church. Ask God to turn your life around. Anyone who genuinely wants to give you help, I would discuss the matter with them and inform you.

Be assured of my prayers.

Pastor