STORIES of long periods of abuse and agony are held secret and sacred inside the four walls of the Hospice of St. Margaret of Cortona Inc. (HSMCI) in Barangay Dayap, Calauan, Laguna.
STORIES of long periods of abuse and agony are held secret and sacred inside the four walls of the Hospice of St. Margaret of Cortona Inc. in Barangay Dayap, Calauan, Laguna.Young girls, ages 7 to 17, who have mustered the courage to rise from years of cowering in fear, are brought together to this place, where they can reclaim their long-lost peace, security and potential to grow.
Karla's roommate, Aurea , 13, has had harsher luck, as her abusers are her real father and eldest brother. Like Karla, she was 7 when her sex ordeal began inside the family home in a slum area in Silang, Cavite. She is forced to dispense a mother's role to her siblings at the age of 4.
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