Growing up, Soipan Martha has always craved her mother’s affection, but she never understood why this never materialised.
At the age of two, Martha’s mother left her in the care of her elder sister and left the country to seek greener pastures in Saudi Arabia.
She says life was not easy as she kept wondering when she would ever see her mother again.
One day, her mother returned to Kenya and decided to take her to boarding school, but no one would visit her during the visiting day.
This made her befriend the headmistress, who vowed to treat her as her daughter. And she did.
With the help of her grandmother, she joined high school after primary school then began to work in the hospitality sector, where she met a man and fell in love.
Falling in love with the wrong man “I thought he loved me because of all the attention he would give me. But immediately I moved in with him trouble started. He beat me up on the first day demanding money and ATM cards. Whenever I had no money he would sell my phone and keep the money,” she said in an interview.
Martha said that whenever she would seek help from her mother, the mum would defend the man and say he would never do such a thing. She recalled how one day, after she was introduced to her mother in law by her husband’s brother, the old lady’s response shocked her.
“She asked me, with all this beauty, did you not find anyone else to marry?” She narrated, adding that after that statement, then her sister-in-law told her that many had come before her and some severely injured.
On the day she returned home from the introduction, she found her husband furious. He wanted to know what his relatives had told her, and when she couldn’t answer, he beat her up to pulp until she lost consciousness.
She woke up in the hospital, where she was also informed that she was pregnant but unfortunately lost the baby three hours after birth.
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