I got raped by my uncle, got pregnant and now don't know what to do. I need some advice.
I'm a high school student from a third world country where abortion is really shunned and I don't know how to go about it. I don't have anyone I can talk to about this and it's really killing me.
A month and a half ago, I got raped by my uncle at our home. My mum works double shifts (fruit trader during the day and janitor at a hotel at night). She's hardly ever home and even when she is she is usually too tired so we hardly spend time together. Every two to three days she sends my uncle, her brother, to check up on us (my brother is 11) and help around the house Once a week he takes my brother for football practice just close to where we live. From what I know she's been paying my uncle to do that.
He's been looking after us for close to a year now and everything used to be cool with him, until the incident.
He doesn't really speak much he would just come after we left school in the evening, make dinner sometimes, help my brother with homework or take him for practice and then we watch movies till like midnight.
One day he came home drunk which I've never seen him do at all. He brought my brother some juice and snacks and got me a diary which I had told him I wanted. What was strange is my brother started getting drowsy and fell asleep almost immediately after eating the snacks. I suspect he had spiked the juice with something, but I didn't think much of it then because he sometimes sleeps early after practice.
I was left with my uncle watching movies, as we usually do, when he started complaining of how my mum thinks she's better than him because she has two jobs and all that. I told him that it's not true and that mum loved him so much and always spoke highly of him and that having two jobs didn't mean she was doing well financially. The assumption in this part of the world is the more jobs you can get the better off you are. I told him that he could talk to mum to try and find him something to do. Mum has done this before but he can never keep a job. So I told him to make sure he perseveres in whatever job he finds before things get better. I don't know why he got angry at me because he suddenly slapped me so hard that I fell and started crying. Then he stripped me naked and said that since I thought I was grown he was going to make me a woman. I tried fighting him off but he's way stronger. I tried screaming for my brother but he didn't wake up, now I know why.
All I remember is feeling some sharp pain down there as he forced himself onto me. It's like my body just shut down and I was completely out of it and lay there. Even when he finished, I just lay there for hours crying and couldn't move. Before he left he said that if I told his sister(mum) he would make sure my life was a living hell and I won't get to go to college. Nobody in our family has a degree and I've been working so hard to get there and study engineering.
Anyway, when mum came home the next day I had already showered and stayed in bed all day as it was a Saturday so no school. My brother had been playing all day. As usual mum gets home and sleeps so I don't think she noticed that I was sad and had been crying.
My uncle came around again twice and those have been the longest nights of my life. I was so scared and couldn't even do anything. I couldn't even eat with him around. He didn't say a word and pretended that everything was normal. He got a job two weeks ago or so I hear, not sure if it's true. So he hasn't been coming around and it's basically just me and my brother most of the time.
Then I missed my periods at the end of last month and immediately started panicking. I used my lunch money and got a pregnancy test kit last week which confirmed my fears. I cried so much and felt like my life had ended. I cannot tell my mother because I don't think she'd believe me. Even if she did, she's the super religious type and wouldn't accept that I have an abortion.
She always talks about how such things bring shame into a family, which is hilarious because her own brother is all the shame one could ask for.
I cannot have this baby. How will I look at a child that reminds me of pain and betrayal every day?
How can I raise them with love when they come from animosity?
Fortunately, abortion is legalish in our country but it's too expensive (around 500$) which I cannot afford as I'm in school. I'm pretty sure mum can't raise that money as well as its around 2-3 months of her salary. Then again even if she could, she wouldn't.
I've been so stressed since last week I'm barely concentrating in class. My end of year exams are almost here and I don't want to fail. I have no other way out of this life apart from school. If I don't do well next year for the finals I might never make it to college. I might never get out.
I'm so sad and have no one to talk to. I was researching natural methods to abort but they seem too complicated and don't guarantee success. I came across this sub in my research which has been a sigh of relief because now I know which meds to take. Unfortunately, I can't buy them from a pharmacy as they're only available in designated abortion clinics.
I'm so lonely and lost. I've thought about suicide but how can my life be lost because someone couldn't live theirs? I can't let him win.
I wish I had someone I could talk to. I feel so alone. I keep asking why this had to happen to me but I couldn't wish it on somebody else so I'm accepting that this is my fate.
Would it be wrong if I stole to get the money. Or sell my body for some money? I don't know if I can do it but I assume it would be way easier than raising a child I don't love. I just need someone I could talk to.
Sorry for the long read I just needed to vent somewhere.