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The heartbreaking story of a young girl named Ewoma has drawn attention after it was revealed how she was mistreated in her own father’s house. Ewoma, who lost her mother at a very young age, shared how her life changed completely when her father brought another woman into their home. Read Our Last Post: Love Without Borders: Temia Proudly Shows Off Her Man And Says She Has Finally Found True Happiness
According to Ewoma, she was only eleven years old when her father introduced a new woman, known as Mama Rita, and told her to start calling her “mother.” The woman did not come alone. She moved in with her two children, who were close to Ewoma’s age.
From that day, everything changed. Ewoma explained that she was no longer treated as a daughter but as a servant. Rita’s children took the best seat in the sitting room while she was forced to sit on the bare floor whenever visitors came. She was not allowed to choose what to watch on television and faced constant slaps and insults whenever she touched the remote.
Every morning, Ewoma woke up before dawn to sweep the compound, wash plates, clean the house, and prepare Rita’s children for school, while they slept comfortably. She was told that she was “used to suffering” and should be grateful to be alive under that roof.
Food became another source of humiliation. While Rita’s children ate freshly cooked meals on the dining table with juice in clean cups, Ewoma was given old leftovers in a broken plastic plate. She recounted one Sunday when she returned from church, very hungry. She went into the kitchen and saw four pieces of chicken in the pot. She was about to serve herself a small portion of rice when Rita caught her and accused her of stealing.
Ewoma said she tried to explain but was silenced with a hot slap. She was then dragged to the back of the kitchen and forced to eat stale food from two days earlier. Her step-siblings mocked her as she ate, laughing at her tears. That night, she suffered stomach pains and diarrhoea.
When she went to knock on her father’s door for help, crying and holding her stomach, he turned her away. Rita told him that Ewoma was sick because she “stole food.” Her father closed the door and left her outside in pain. She slept by the door that night without care or comfort.
The next morning, despite her weakness, Rita ordered her to wash the toilet. Ewoma obeyed silently, saying nothing, even as her stomach continued to ache. From then on, silence became her way of surviving. She worked, endured insults, ate scraps, and stopped complaining.
Over time, she said she felt herself slowly breaking. She no longer looked in the mirror because she could not recognise the girl she saw. The happy child who once knew love had disappeared, replaced by a wounded child living like a stranger in her own father’s house.
This sad revelation about Ewoma’s childhood treatment has continued to spark reactions, with many expressing shock at the silence of her father and the cruelty she faced at the hands of her stepmother.
