Sabrina

Sabrina: Sabrina stepfather was jailed, but only for a month; over the next 17 years, he continued to emotionally and physically abuse her. She reported the boy to police, too, but they just told her to go home. By the time she discovered her neighbour climbing in her window, Sabrina had lost faith in the local authorities. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "Here" is St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a Caribbean country of white-sand beaches and turquoise waters a vacationer paradise. But according to a new report spearheaded by Quebec researchers, the sun-dappled island has a dark side: a "cultural epidemic" of violence against girls and women. Sabrina was 7 when her stepfather raped her. She was in high school when a boy she had turned down threatened to kill her. In her early 20s, she caught a man crawling through her bedroom window the same neighbour who tried to rape her years earlier. She attempted suicide but ultimately chose to live and her only chance at safety, she decided, was to flee. "I had my mind made up," said Sabrina, who asked that her surname not be published. "I was going to try anything just to get out of here." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.