The asylum seeker is from Ethiopia where violence against women is endemic:
Wiki women in Ethiopia
Female Genital Mutilation -As of 2005, 74.3% of women aged 15 – 49 years had undergone FGM) 25 million girls and women.
A school-age girl is not allowed to attend school, with the excuse that she may be raped, abducted or harmed on the way to school.
Bride kidnapping (when a man or boy abducts the girl he wishes to marry) is practiced by certain communities in Ethiopia, mainly in the Southern Nations, (SNNPR). According to surveys conducted in 2003 by the National Committee on Traditional Practices in Ethiopia, the custom's prevalence rate in the SNNPR was estimated at 92 percent.[26]
An UN analysis of several international studies suggests that domestic violence against women is most prevalent in Ethiopia.[12]' Ethiopian women were most abused'.
Sexual violence is also reportedly common.[13][14] Bekele AB, van Aken MA, Dubas JS (2011). "Sexual violence victimization among female secondary school students in eastern Ethiopia"
Ethiopia has a high number of arranged marriages at young ages.
The Conflict in Tigray (northern Ethiopia):
"It’s clear that rape and sexual violence have been used as a weapon of war to inflict lasting physical and psychological damage on women and girls in Tigray".[19] From February to April 2021, medical facilities in Tigray recorded 1,288 instances of gender-based violence. 376 instances of rape were reported at Adigrat Hospital between the start of the conflict and June 9, 2021.The TPLF soldiers are the ones raping these innocent women and children. There have been many instances of gang rape where women are beaten and raped throughout several days. A 21-year-old Bademe resident named Blen said that on November 5, 2020, she was kidnapped by soldiers from Eritrea and Ethiopia and held captive for 40 days together with an estimated 30 other women." They raped us and starved us. They were too many who raped us in rounds. We were around 30 women they took… All of us were raped".[20] One woman said that she had been gang-raped in front of her kids.