Sally Hayden
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649 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Jun
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And yeah, women and girls are liable to be forced into marriage or just, you know, different abuses.
And so...
In her case, actually, she was one of several women that I met who kind of basically went to huge lengths to protect their children.
And so what she told me was that, first of all, her oldest daughter, she basically hid her in kind of like a dugout.
She called it a ditch.
I understand it as like a dugout.
um and covered it over and basically just didn't want her to be forced into marriage and so the story she told me which was like backed up by the people in the displacement camp where i met her um was that she then basically pretended to be the way she described it was pretended to be mad and so she like
would kind of this disgusting, so hopefully I'm allowed to say it, like cover herself in feces and like, you know, keep her children close to her.
And she got her children also to tell people that she had been in a mental hospital before.
And she basically, there seemed to be a belief that if somebody had mental issues, that if you killed them, that could actually make you have like bad luck in battle.
Yeah, basically you'd be cursed.
So this is what she told me.
And she then, the strange thing was that I then met another woman.
So this, it's hard to explain, like, or it's hard to imagine probably for a lot of people.
But like when we went to Groza, we went in a helicopter with UNICEF.
It was like completely cut off from the internet.
completely cut off from phone access like you couldn't travel in this area around it was kind of called a garrison town protected by the Nigerian military you couldn't travel in the area around because you'd get kidnapped or killed and I met then like a long distance away another woman who actually had quite a similar story but what she said was that she had been kidnapped with her children I think she had four children and
And that she, again, had pretended to have mental issues and started pouring cooking oil on her head.
And she basically said anything she could find, she'd pour it on herself.
The Boko Haram militants were like, you know, this is just too much hassle to keep this woman, so we'll just let her go.
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