Dear ObaaYaa,

I was a house-help close to 10 years with my madam and her husband. I was responsible for raising their three children from their infancy till they entered the Junior High School.

My madam and her husband were pleased with my services and, therefore, entrusted more responsibilities into my care.

Initially, my madam invited the younger sister to take care of her children whenever she made her foreign trips. I accorded the sister the same measure of respect and assistance on those occasions.

After some time, her younger sister also got married and, therefore, could not provide support to her sister.

As the foreign trips continued, the mantle finally fell on me to take charge of the house.

Though my master has been making advances at me, l managed to turn down his requests.

One day, when my madam was away and the children were asleep, my master asked me to serve him with a bottle of beer and also take the only bottle of coke in the fridge.

l felt dizzy ten minutes after drinking the coke and by the time l woke up,my master was beside me in my bed.

Having discovered this, lwas terrified and suddenly jumped out ofthe bed, but he managed to get hold of me and one can imagine the conclusion.

After this first encounter, he made it a routine to make love to me. He gave me a lot of money in a way to compensate meand warned me not to tell anybody about it.

l am pregnant and he is forcing me to abort the pregnancy because my madam will not take kindly to it when she discovers it.

What should l do?

Memouna , Accra.

Dear Memouna,

Since two wrongs do not make a right, I will advise you to keep the pregnancy because the harm hasalready been done so you must prepare your mind to give birth.

Your continued stay in the house will expose you so it will be better for you to leave the house as early as possible. In this case your master should support you with money to settle in a different house in order to protect his marriage.

Make sure the relationships ends here after you have been delivered of your child otherwise the embarrassment will be too much.