’I go through the pain every day but I don’t care anymore. I am not afraid of him’

Abuse victim: Aoife's story

HOME wasn’t a good place for Aoife (not her real name). She knew she had to escape for her own sake and back in those days, there were only two ways out.

“I could get pregnant at 17 and escape into a bad marriage or I could escape into the convent. I was religious so I chose the nuns. To be fair, I liked it there and the nuns were good to me. You know, if it wasn’t for what happened with the adoption, I’d probably still be there,” she muses.