Being sexually molested can leave an indelible pain or affect the psychology of its victim. This is why those living with such horrible experiences find it difficult to relate with the opposite s3x except he or she goes through some counseling.
It is no news that popular actress, Foluke Daramola Salako went through such. But since she summed up the courage to speak up about it, she has taken it upon herself to help other victims.
After her first marriage failed, she got married to a social activist, Kayode Salako.
Speaking with Nigeriafilms.com and other journalists at his wife’s movie premiere and launch of her foundation, Salako said even if Foluke’s r@pe incident had produced a child, he would have still cared for the child like his own.
Salako said based on his level of education and exposure, there was no way he would hold his wife responsible for what happened to her while she was a teenager, which she had no control over.
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According to him, “I am a liberally inclined person, very realistic to the core, I am educationally inclined and things like that don’t bother me at all.
“Whether she is a r@pe victim or not, what I am going to say is that I didn’t meet her a v*rgin and the only painful aspect of it is that she was introduced to s3x against her own consent or wish, which is very bad enough, that is the only aspect of the experience I don’t like.
“But as a victim of sexual molestation, that doesn’t bother me at all because it didn’t take her life and she is still normal and okay. The only thing it affected her was that it affected her physiologically at a time, a period of her life, but I did not meet her in it.
“She had come out of it before we met and the two of us have lived normally and perfectly together you won’t even know that she is a r@pe victim if she didn’t tell you.”
When asked if he would have still cared had she been pregnant and went ahead to give birth to the child, the actress’ husband said, “If I can be a father to her two children she brought into our marriage, then if by that circumstance, I have to love and accept her and whatever she has as a child must also be accepted.
“Though I might not be happy that my wife was bringing a child that she doesn’t know the father to my house, but let me tell you something please, every human being has its own life to live and that child too has his own life to live and it’s not compulsory that every child must have parents.
“What is compulsory is that every child must have a life and once the child she is bringing to me has a life and it is her own, I must love her in that circumstance and so she becomes my child, that’s all, nothing changes.
“I have told you, I am a liberally inclined person, I don’t attach meanings to the way a typical African man attaches meaning to things. That is why Foluke Daramola has been enjoying me and I have been enjoying her too; we are both liberally inclined.
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