Last summer I was two weeks away from turning 15 and I was waking home from a musical theatre club, when I was raped.

The last thing I remember before the incident was feeling excruciating pain in the back of my head, the next thing I know I was waking up in a hospital bed. It turned out a man had seen me as an easy target and decided to knock me unconscious and rape me.

When I woke up I remember my entire body hurt and I had bruises all along my chest, neck and face. It turned out a passer-by had seen what was happening and tackled my attacker and phone the police and an ambulance. When I regained consciousness in the hospital they had performed a ‘rape kit’ (with my mum’s supervision). We would have to wait a week for the results, but I was discharged a day later.

A week later the ‘rape kit’ results came back and they DNA from my attacker, but because he didn’t use a condom there was a possibility I was pregnant, within another 3 weeks after blood tests I got the result- I was pregnant.

I had never been so scared in all my life and I became very secluded and timid for a while especially when I went back to school, my attacker pleaded guilty to rape and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He doesn’t know that I am pregnant.

I am now currently 29 weeks pregnant with a little girl, and I share my story so people who are victims to rape/sexual assault know that they are not alone and that we can fight and pull through these challenging times together. X 🧡