Sophia Lawrence’s mother sat quietly in the front row of her small church and listened in silence with other congregants as her daughter testified how she was raped at just 8 years old. When her daughter told the church who her abuser was, however, Lawrence’s mother exploded from her seat and threatened her child with death from God and the “blood of Jesus.”

“The devil! My God! God will kill you for that!” Lawrence’s mother screamed with a thick Jamaican accent.

“I was raped at 8-and-a-half years old. I kept it to myself because I didn’t know who to trust….I was 8-and-a-half when my mother’s boyfriend took my childhood away from me but God,” Lawrence said, explaining she wanted to talk about what happened to bring awareness about the effects of rape in the church.
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