Former UoN student has opened up on her darkest moment where he revealed how he tried committing suicide five times.
While sharing her story on Hot 96 on the a story a Day with Jeff and Profesa Hamo, Catherine Njeri, former Sociology and Communication student at UON (University of Nairobi) confessed to sleeping with over a hundred men
She further disclosed that she lost hope after being raped by a colleague during her second year at the final semester.
“I lost my virginity to rape,” an emotional Catherine revealed.
She further said that at times she would sleep with one or two men per day. “In a week I only spent 2-3 nights in my campus room. I was ‘a don’t care’, I never gave a damn… I never gave a damn as I was like what’s there in life that I have never seen?”
She continued trading sex for money as in her mind she preferred contracting HIV/AIDS from selling her body rather than from someone forcing themselves onto her.
“I felt I would rather be positive when someone has paid me than when someone has forced himself on me,” she said.
In addition she said, she got into the pornographic industry but became a laughing stock after her schoolmates got their hands on her blue videos. After a particularly humiliating incident in class a week after her pornographic video was circulated in the school, she walked out of class and jumped into traffic hoping to be hit by oncoming cars and die. This was one just one of her 5 suicide attempts.
Catherine believes that she embarked on this dangerous journey because she didn’t seek help after getting raped, the first time by her colleague and the second time by their farm hand who sneaked into their bathroom while she was showering. “I never spoke and never sought help,” Catherine said explaining why her life turned out the way it did.
Lucky for her, she didn’t contract HIV/AIDS and has now dedicated her life to people like her who have suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts.