“I married my rapist”: The confession of a woman who became pregnant and finally found the courage to denounce him

Amanda Walker, 24, made revelations about her rapist husband, who attacked her during pregnancy but also on her wedding day. The young woman was a virgin that she was raped by her colleague, 34-year-old Mihai Savescu, in February 2018.

One year and nine months after the first rapeAmanda reported Savescu to the police, when he hit her, while their daughter was sleeping.

Savescu was sentenced to 17 years in prison for abusing a young woman.

Amanda has now refused to remain anonymous, hoping to encourage other women to escape their abusive partners.

“What he did to me dissolved me. But I am determined to move on with my life and become the best mom for my daughter. I will wait for the right moment to tell her about her dad “she says, according to the British Daily Mail.

In August 2017, Amanda, then 20, was working in a nursing home as a nursing staff coordinator. “Mihai was young at work and very friendly. He had just come from Romania and had a son from a previous relationship. At that time I had no friends and I never had a boy. I was struggling with depression, I was very shy and I was not confident. “Mihai was great for me and he was the first person to pull me out of my shell.”

Since then, Amanda and Savescu have become good friends. He took her to work every day and often confessed her problems to him.

The next year, in February 2018, he was going to leave her at home. However he stopped outside a hotel. “I started to get scared but he told me to trust him and that everything will go well. Panicked, I followed him to a room and before I knew it, he forced me to undress and held both my hands tightly. I begged him to stop, but he did not listen to me and raped me. After that, I could not stop crying. Not only did he take my virginity, but I was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It was against our beliefs to have sex outside of marriage. He asked me not to tell anyone and not to mention him, because he had a son. “I did not want to take a father away from his child, so I agreed not to do so.”

After that, back at work, he acted as if nothing had happened. Still injured and numb, Amanda did her best to pretend. Two months later, in April, she found out she was pregnant.

In November 2018, Amanda gave birth to their daughter, Charlotte, who is now three years old. A few days later, Mihai proposed to her. Desperate to give her daughter a good life, she reluctantly agreed. The following month, they were married at a local registry office with family and friends present.

“I did my best to smile in the photos, while trying to hold back my tears. That night, Mihai left me at home and went for a drink. And on our first night together as husband and wife, he raped me again. After our wedding day I tried to escape many times. At first he would stop me, empty my bags, then send me scary messages saying he was holding a knife and would commit suicide if I did not return home. Terrified that she would do it, I always came back. “

In November 2019, he attacked her on the bedroom floor to rape her while the little girl was in bed crying. “He had done it before, but this time, something changed inside me. I knew Charlotte deserved a better life. So am I. I finally confided everything to my mom and she convinced me to call the police and report him. This man was manipulating me, treating me harshly and terrorizing me when I was most vulnerable. But I could not imagine my life without my little girl. If you are going through something like this in your life right now, please ask someone for help. It’s never too late…”.