The Throw-away Girl
Ruth is used to being kicked out of her home. She is a young woman who was born in Chisinau, Moldova, and whose life of abuse began when she was raped by her brother at just 13 years old. When her older sister found out, she sent Ruth away to an orphanage.
At 16 Ruth began a sexual relationship with a man who was 10 years older. When she became pregnant with his second child her lover started to beat her. One night he burned all of her documents and turned her out on the street. With nowhere else to turn, Ruth went to an orphanage and left her children there. It was only meant to be a temporary solution, but social services threatened to deprive of her parental rights if she could not find place to live and a paying job in a very short amount of time. At that time the only living arrangements Ruth could find was to sleep in the basements of different buildings in the capital. She was absolutely out of options.
Around that time, one of Ruth’s friend offered to help her to find a good job in Soroca, a town northeast of Moldova. Ruth trusted her and moved to that town to start her new job. But instead of a well-paying job she was forced to stay in a gypsy house where she was locked up for a month and sold for sex. She was forced to take drugs that kept her incoherent and docile.
One of the girls from that house helped her to escape. Ruth went to her mother, but mother was afraid that gypsies would come looking for her, so she forced Ruth to leave. Ruth went to the state social services, but they refused her help, but gave her an advice to come to the Exodus Cry Lighthouse. She came to the Lighthouse May 7, 2010, and has finally found a place where she will not be discarded, but where she will be embraced and loved.
