This is a story of Dorothy, a 14-year-old from an affluent family. Her life was every child’s dream as she got everything she wanted. Her parents were lawyers in a big law firm and earned fat salaries. Dorothy’s life was wonderful until tragedy happened. Her mother passed away due to a heart attack, which resulted from drinking three energy drinks within one hour.

Dorothy and her father were hit hard by the death of her mother and her father went into a severe depression. He started drinking heavily and doing drugs, which led to him being fired from his job. One day while he was crying in his bedroom. Dorothy went to him and hugged him in order to comfort him. They ended up crying together and her father touched her face and said that she looked exactly like her mother. He pulled her face closer and deep kissed her, Dorothy pulled her head back but her father jumped on her and forcefully kissed and had sex with her. For the next three years, Dorothy was subjected to rape from her father and, at age 17, ran away from home. She didn’t know where she was going but kept running as far away as possible from her home.

Later that day she slept near a local university in an abandoned shop stand. Nathan, a passing student, saw her and woke her up to enquire about her situation. Dorothy told him that her parents died and she had nowhere to live. Nathan felt sorry for her and offered that she come stay with him in his rented apartment. For the next two months he fed her and would sometimes give her his card to go shopping. Nathan fell in love with Dorothy and asked her to be his girlfriend. Dorothy agreed despite not having any romantic feelings towards him.

The next morning Nathan woke up to an empty room. His belongings were not there and when he checked his phone notifications, R120 000 had been withdrawn from his bank account, which was his tuition and living-expenses money from his bursary donor. Dorothy fled to another province and rented an apartment to start her life afresh with Nathans’s money. She didn’t show any remorse for her actions and had turned into a troubled, cold, and depressed young woman.

Her plan was to get revenge on her father for what he did to her. She bought a gun and signed up for gun training. After a month of gun training, she went back to her hometown and eventually shot her father three times in the head without hesitation. After that event, she quickly took a bus heading back to her apartment but while in the bus, looking through the window, she saw a very young woman getting into an older man’s car.

The young women was wearing tight-fitting clothes and the older man looked to be in his early 50s. This infuriated Dorothy as she got an impression that this older man was going to take advantage of that young woman by sleeping with her for money. After arriving at her apartment, she logged on to the internet and searched the word “blessers”, which google defined as people who engage in a sexual transaction where an older man sleeps with younger women in exchange for money and expensive gifts.

Tell us: Do you think that Dorothy will really look for a blesser? Motivate your answer.