Rule of the rapists in Haiti

[struggle4progress]

In the gangland slums, almost half of all girls have been raped or assaulted, yet few perpetrators stand trial

... Roselaure is the youngest. She was 14 when she was arrested, nearly two years ago .... “It was April 11. I was sitting at home early in the evening, working on some T-shirts - that's what I do to make money when I'm not at school - and my mother asked me to go buy some water. So I went out. I was alone. A man - I don't really know him, but he was from our neighbourhood - came out and grabbed me. He pulled me into an alley and tried to rape me. I was still holding my scissors and I pushed them at his stomach. He let me go and I ran. I got home and told my mother what had happened ...

“Mardi was 18,” he says grimly. “He was a member of the same gang who raped her when she was 12.” This was something that I hadn't heard. “Yes, she was raped so badly that she had to go to hospital for stitches. We still have a medical report that says she was raped. We told the police.” Jacques turns his head away in disgust. “They did nothing,” Mimose goes on. “The gang has guns, the police are frightened of them ...

In 2006 a UN report stated that “almost half” of the young women and girls living in Cité Soleil and other conflict-zone slums had been raped or sexually assaulted ...

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3875464.ece

[Lady-Damai]

1. What's going in Cite Soleil is just plain horrible.....

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was trying his best to help Haiti. United States fucked it royally.