Angelina Jolie's adopted two-year-old girl Zahara was conceived after her mother was raped

Angelina Jolie's adopted two-year-old girl Zahara was conceived after her mother was raped.

Mentwabe Dawit said she was attacked in 2004 after walking home from work at a construction site at night in the southern Ethiopian town of Awasa, US reports.

"He pulled a dagger, put one hand on my mouth, so that I could not scream. He then raped me and disappeared," she tearfully recalled to Reuters.

Dawit, 24, kept it a secret until she could no longer hide her pregnancy.

She gave birth to the child in the family's home, naming her baby girl Yemsrach (which means good news in the Amharic language).

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