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Margret tells Marie Claire that she was walking to a market where she sold cassava leaves when she was abducted by a group of men on a dirt road outside her village. Her nightmare started more than three years ago. Although he was conceived by rape – from her time held captive by fighters in the bush – Moses is her baby, her son that she loves unconditionally. And in her arms she is carrying her one-year-old son Moses*. She’s gone from child to child soldier, and today she is struggling to catch up on the life she has missed – lost somewhere inbetween her years and her responsibilities. But under her orange cotton T-shirt, stained with dirt and sweat, is a small fragile frame. In the past three years, Margret’s whole world has been ripped apart. Just like many former child soldiers in South Sudan, Margret doesn’t know exactly how old she is, citing ‘sixteen,’ as an unsure answer.
