A teenage girl was forced to marry a grown man just months after finishing school before he abused her for years.
Melika had never met the man and didn't want to marry him but was forced into it by her family who had put her through Female Genital Mutilation as a child . After their marriage, Melika was physically, sexually, emotionally and financially abused by her much older husband.
Within months of their wedding, she was pregnant. Now being supported by Merseyside charity Savera UK, Melika said she knew growing up she would be a victim of Honour Based Abuse.
