Farah, also not her real name, met Khan as a child after he convinced her mother she needed healing. Farah says he took advantage of her family.<\/p>\n
“He would make up stories, [saying] ‘I can see things coming towards you, you need to be protected, I need to protect your daughter’.”<\/p>\n
Khan went on to sexually assault Farah, telling her it was part of the “cure”.<\/p>\n
She says Khan’s abuse “didn’t make sense to me”. “I said to myself, ‘this is wrong’,” she says. “You know you’re not meant to be touched like this. I was really confused, but I couldn’t go back to my family because they wouldn’t believe me.”<\/p>\n
Farah did eventually tell her parents as an older teenager – but she says they did not believe her and she then left the family home.<\/p>\n
“I was not believed by my family. The people I expected to protect and support me instead turned away, blamed me, and continue to do so to this day,” she says.<\/p>\n
“I feel as though I’m lost. I question my identity of who am I? Where do I belong?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farah, also not her real name, met Khan as a child after he convinced her mother she needed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}