Lucy Hayek is a young person who has been sexually exploited by her father, her mother passed away when Lucy was 10. Her father brings home girls for sexual pleasures and Lucy is made to watch him and sometimes even join in. Due to the fact she was brought up like that for a few years, at 13 her father told her it was time to take the next step and told her she could have loads of money if she did the same thing as him. Therefore, Lucy’s father arranged for different older men to come and spend a night with her every weekend, Lucy began to get used to it and thought it was normal. Unknowingly she had gotten into prostitution because she started to sleep with different men every night for the greed of money, and had unprotected sex most of time.
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She is preoccupied with anything sexual, so she doesn’t see any dangers as it’s completely normal for her. This affects her very badly as she would immediately start being sexual with anyone who’s available to her, no matter what age they are. On the other hand, she has soreness and itchiness around her genitals, this is a short term effect that could be because of her poor hygiene and having excessive sex with different men. She would be getting bacteria from everywhere, and it’d cause her to have infections. Similarly, a long term effect would be her getting a sexually transmitted disease like HIV or AIDS, this is very vital for her as she has unprotected sex. It would have a really bad impact on her because she’d have problems in the future especially with her unborn baby. Furthermore, she has become pregnant, which is a long term effect as she is only just 15. The pregnancy would ruin her life, as she’d have a child to take care of and wouldn’t know the responsibilities of looking after …show more content…
Physical abuse could have a big impact of her life “Many pregnant women who are being physically abused will be unable to gain weight properly and this could lead to preterm labour, low infant birth weight and possibly even miscarriage” (http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/physical.html 03/11/15). This means that she has a potential risk of losing her baby or having some sort of other problem, for example her baby may develop some sort of brain damage. It could change her life, if she doesn’t look after her unborn baby and its development. Also “A number of sufferers will go on to develop mental health problems such as depression, panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” (http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/physical.html 03/11/15) this means she has the risk of having problems like depression. In the future she may feel stressed and depressed, that she may start to drink alcohol and self-harm herself, knowing what she did in the
She is preoccupied with anything sexual, so she doesn’t see any dangers as it’s completely normal for her. This affects her very badly as she would immediately start being sexual with anyone who’s available to her, no matter what age they are. On the other hand, she has soreness and itchiness around her genitals, this is a short term effect that could be because of her poor hygiene and having excessive sex with different men. She would be getting bacteria from everywhere, and it’d cause her to have infections. Similarly, a long term effect would be her getting a sexually transmitted disease like HIV or AIDS, this is very vital for her as she has unprotected sex. It would have a really bad impact on her because she’d have problems in the future especially with her unborn baby. Furthermore, she has become pregnant, which is a long term effect as she is only just 15. The pregnancy would ruin her life, as she’d have a child to take care of and wouldn’t know the responsibilities of looking after …show more content…
Physical abuse could have a big impact of her life “Many pregnant women who are being physically abused will be unable to gain weight properly and this could lead to preterm labour, low infant birth weight and possibly even miscarriage” (http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/physical.html 03/11/15). This means that she has a potential risk of losing her baby or having some sort of other problem, for example her baby may develop some sort of brain damage. It could change her life, if she doesn’t look after her unborn baby and its development. Also “A number of sufferers will go on to develop mental health problems such as depression, panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” (http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/physical.html 03/11/15) this means she has the risk of having problems like depression. In the future she may feel stressed and depressed, that she may start to drink alcohol and self-harm herself, knowing what she did in the