He hit me. He was such a huge man I could not push him away. Then he forced my legs apart. He beat me senseless and took my virginity. Tribal tradition has it that once the abducted girl has been impregnated, the man can put his claim on her.
Village elders act as mediators between families and negotiate the bride's price.
In return for their daughter, the abductor was willing to give one ox to Aberash's parents. Aberash knew her rapist wanted to become her husband. But on the second day of her kidnapping she found a Kalashnikov in the corner of the hut. Badly beaten, covered in blood and with a broken arm, she tried to escape. But it wasn't long before her rapist caught up with her.