Buki Lester is a seventeen-year-old crack head with a history of sexual abuse. She has learned to fight, steal, take drugs and lie compulsively- very convincingly. She had a child when she was thirteen, which was born still-born in a public lavatory. She lived rough for a year or two after running away from her last foster home.
Recently, her pimp took her off the streets and put her in a bedsit, but she failed to declare all her tricks and siphoned off money for her drug habit. Her pimp found out about this and beat her up badly. She got hewr revenge by knifing him. Like many inmates, Buki suffers from very low self-esteem and desperately needs to be valued as a person rather than a commodity. |
