Adenike Daramola Says She Confronted Relatives Over Childhood Abuse, Shares Reply

Travel enthusiast Adenike Daramola has said she recently faced two of the three relatives she says sexually abused her during childhood, and she posted one man's reply to their exchange. Daramola, who has visited roughly 50 countries, said the place she has felt least safe was not abroad but her own home. According to her, relatives molested her there and other family members shielded them. In a screenshot she shared, Daramola is shown confronting one of the men she has accused of rape. The man, she said, pretended not to know what she was talking about. Daramola said that when she tried to speak about the abuse as a child, she was instructed to stay quiet in order to protect the family. She added that three of her abusers were family members, which is why their actions caused her the deepest pain. She wrote that she has traveled alone to about 50 countries or more, and the only time she felt unsafe was when a receptionist knocked on her door at midnight saying he wanted to check her television. She said her greatest danger was at home, where she lost count of how many times people she called family molested her. She described experiencing major rape at age 5, an attempted rape and murder at 22, and numerous instances of abuse during her teenage and early adult years. She said that when people call her brave for traveling alone, they should know that the worst experiences happened at home. Daramola said that among all her abusers, three hurt her most because they were relatives. She said she has seen them and had to act as if nothing had happened, but she will no longer do so. She wrote that shame should be placed on the person who deserves it. She said one of the men apologized, and she is still processing that because she wonders why he waited until she confronted him. The other, she said, had the nerve to speak badly about her and does not know what is coming. She stated that she is no longer the same girl and that this is part of her healing process.