‘The Little Prince’

written an illustrated by me for a UNICEF project in Foundation Art.

A fairy tale based on a true story - My friend’s story. For anonymity sake I shall call him Rex.

TRIGGER WARNING FOR PAEDOPHILIA, RAPE, DRUG ABUSE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Rex’s father was a drug addict who beat his mum and, to top it all off, he was also a paedophile.

When Rex was two, his dad didn’t have enough money to get his fix so invited the drug dealer round and fucking filmed him raping Rex.

He was laughing.

Rex’s fucking dad was laughing at his son screaming and crying in pain and distress.

They even discussed whether to kill Rex or not. Rex has told me once before that he wished they had killed him.

Rex now has a number of mental disorders because of his trauma and has a hard time trusting men and befriending males. He just doesn’t trust them. He’s also attempted suicide multiple times and self harms.

He has also lost some friends because of what happened. Friends he trusted enough to actually tell them what happened to him, and they just left. He’s even been told he ’must have lead them on’ or that ’I hope what happened haunts you for the rest of your life’. He’s even been told that guys can’t get raped.

He was two years old, and people are saying he must have lead them on???

His dad now lives twenty minutes away from him. He did go to jail for possession of child pornography, but was released after a short sentence and now lives twenty fucking minutes away from Rex.

Tell me now, how is that justice?

- Rory