touches some sensitive parts of her body. It happened several times and she told her mother about those incidences but her mother didn’t believe in her story. Her stepfather told her mother that “ayaw ug tuo anang bataa na bakakon kay na” and because of that there’s no one could help her to stop the sexual abuse. Years past but the abuse continues until she reached 15 years old and she decided to run away from their house because of the fear that the rape will continue. She had a friend who help her to find a place to stay in Malita, Davao Del Sur and she stopped schooling and worked as maid and a vendor for 3 years. When she was 18 years old she eventually went back to their house “ning uli japun ko kay murag gimingaw ko sa akong mama, gipatambalan diay ko sa akong mama para makauli ko pero kabalo nako musukol.” She went back to Davao City and her mother said that her stepfather is already a change man. When she came back to their house her step father didn’t touch her anymore but he didn’t allow her to hangout outside. “Nisukol naman ko mao tu wala ko ni puyo sa ilaha.” After that she didn’t stay in their house and she live with her friends. She went back to school and work in an eatery and give support to her family. An auntie, sister of her stepfather promised to her and her sister that she will provide for their education in exchange of working as domestic helper. But her auntie did not fulfill the promise and only her sister was send to school while Fanny worked as full-time domestic helper. Her auntie sent her sister to school with no allowance and sometimes Fanny steal some food for her sister so she could have something to eat while in school. She sometimes steal some food for her sister so she could have something to eat while attending school. One day they had a fight with her auntie, she got beaten up and told her auntie that “ana ka pa skwelahon ko nimo gihimo rako ninyong katabang” and her auntie response that “ngano pa skwelahon man taka dili man taka pag-umangkon?”. Fanny escaped from her auntie and instructed her sister to stay on since she does not know where to go and does not want her sister to suffer. She promised her sister to contact her and her mother on her whereabouts. In 2001, she worked as maid in one household earning 150 per month doing all the work. Because of the meager salary, she escaped from her employer and started to work from one house to another until she met a family of doctors who eventually became her employer and pay her a monthly salary of Php 800. But she resigned from the job because she had a difficulty in taking care of the employer’s child who has a special needs. She transferred to another employer and this time she likes her working environment. Her sister asked her to go home so she could attend her graduation and went home to Davao. It was then that she learned to drink and smoke when her sister teach her to do it. While in Davao , she worked as salesgirl and met her first boyfriend. At the age of 20 years old, Fanny had her first sexual intercourse with her boyfriend and he gave her parents 500 pesos so she could bring to a lodging inn. Her parents consented and push her to go with her boyfriend. She got pregnant with her first child and her boyfriend wanted to abort the baby and in fact, gave her some medicine to induce abortion. Her 32