"Living with Evil" by Cynthia Owen.

Some things that take place in this life are sometimes too disturbingly pungent a human mind is never sound enough to process and understand them.



After the humiliating defeats African teams have so far faced at the world cup and all the frustrations around, I decided to take solace in a good book. Yeah, reading is always therapeautic. But gosh, what I read implicitly chilled my spine. It actually made me sick!

"Living with Evil", the title of the book, is a shockingly true story of an innocent little girl growing up in a badly disoriented home. Cynthia is her name.
Cynthia's own father rapes and sodomises her every other night from the time she turns eight till she is 15. Her mother is a souless drunk. She brings different men in the house to have their wicked ways with poor Cynthia. She gets her drunk, feeds her drugs and verbally abuses her. Cynthia's witch of a mum also sexually abuses her. There is one time where she commands her to take off her knickers and violently licks her privates.
What kind of sick mother would do that to her own child, her own flesh and blood?
At a tender age of 11 Cynthia falls pregnant. Her father is the father.
Cynthia gives birth to a baby girl who her mother stabs 40 times with a knitting needle. The baby bleeds to death.
23 years later, Cynthia wants justice...

I tell you, I have tried again and again to make sense of parents the likes of Cynthias, that Australian wacko who kept his daughter as a sex slave in a basement for decades.. What exactly goes on through their heads to inflict such cruelty on young innocent souls?
Earth is such a sick place to live in!

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