Little Miss Wild And Reckless

Teenage exuberance is a real thing!

From the ages of 13 to 19 years, children tend to explore nearly everything that comes their way. This is the stage where they often succumb to peer pressure, negative examples, and due to unlimited access to the internet and social media, they have been exposed to all sorts of unhealthy habits.

During this stage, if not monitored closely or mentored rightly, teenage exuberance will become destructive to the child and eventually, the family and society at large.

Tina was thirteen years old when she was caught having sex with their gateman. He was fired, but it did not end there for her.

Last year, at seventeen, Tina, who is now a university student, started bleeding from her private part.

At first, everyone thought that it was the regular menstrual cycle, but by the time it got to a month, and she was still bleeding, her parents became very worried. They questioned her about the situation the best way they could, but she refused to spill. They took Tina to the hospital, but the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with her.

Then, a family friend suggested that they take Tina to a prayer house, as it appeared that the situation was neither physical nor something medically curable, and her parents took the advice.

There, the spiritualist asked Tina to “confess” to her parents where she had gone, as it wasn’t normal for a girl to be “bleeding” for that long; only then would she be cured. There wasn’t even any medical explanation to it, especially at such a young age.

Tina eventually narrated to them that while she was in school, in Portharcourt, she met a boy on social media who is supposedly based in Lagos, and they got talking. After some time, Tina left school and travelled all the way from Portharcourt to Lagos to see him.

The young boy lodged Tina in a hotel for the number of days she was with him in Lagos. They had fun together, which included sex before Tina returned to Portharcourt.

Flabbergasted, her parents asked for the phone number of the young boy, and Tina gave it to them. Several attempts were made to reach him, but the number never connected. They couldn’t go to Lagos to find him because Tina had no idea where he lived, since they hooked up at a hotel all through her stay there.

Her parents had to focus on ensuring that Tina got well again. It was obvious that with little or no information about the boy, they might never be able to find him.

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The country now is infested with internet fraudsters – popularly called Yahoo – and these “boys” who want to get rich very easily, desperately, and at a tender age are now going the extra mile of using spiritual means to get their “clients” to fall for their schemes. Most of the criteria for these rituals are the blood of young innocent girls, their wombs, or sometimes, mysterious deaths.

There have been several cases of young girls spending time with these “Yahoo boys,” and they ended up dying days after, bleeding excessively, losing their wombs (in most cases, the poor girls are not even aware until later in the future), running mad on the street, etc.

Added to that, there have also been numerous stories of femicide or gynocide, especially recently, and yet, Tina, at the tender age of seventeen, dared to take that risk.

Her parents were very disappointed. They would never have known if the case of long-term bleeding hadn’t occurred. Her father is living a successful and comfortable life, but right from the age of thirteen, Tina’s behavior seemed to be one of the challenges he constantly faces.

Well, currently, Tina is said to have recovered fully, and life is normal again, but the real questions are: is she truly cured, or will there be future repercussions? Will this be lesson enough for Tina, being that she had already become wild and reckless from the tender age of thirteen?