New Year’s Eve 2020. Teenage sisters Malak and Leen write down their most negative moments of the year on a note and then burn it together. Leen cannot believe her eyes when she reads what her sister writes: she appears to have been sexually abused for a year and a half by her foster mother (53) and her partner (63) in Beringen, Limburg. The couple was convicted at the beginning of this month, but disappeared without a trace. From fleeing war to two divorces to the sudden return of her biological mother: the now 20-year-old Malak tells the full story. “Sometimes I even had to dress up as a sex worker.”
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