Things got bad for me last summer
I got involved with some older lads and ended up owing them money. They were nice to me at first because my dad had just died. My mum wasn’t the same and I had to look out for my little sister, so I started to talk to them. Some of my friends did too, and the next thing was we owed them.
We owed them money
They made some of the girls have sex with them and their friends to pay them for what we all owed. They started threatening us and they said that they’d follow my little sister home from school. It got really scary. I didn’t know what to do. I had no one I could tell. I could have told my dad, he would’ve known what to do.
How I got help
Then I saw an advert on Instagram for the charity. It said they were confidential, that I could stay anonymous, and that I could be in control of what I told them. I chatted to someone online and it was like they understood. I didn’t need to keep explaining. They were there for me. I felt better, like I didn’t need to carry it all by myself.
They didn’t judge me. They told me what help I could get and got me in touch with services that could help me. I didn’t feel alone after that and things are good now. They got me to a better place. I think my dad would be proud of me now.
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