Haiti gang-rape horror as girl, 16, is drugged, beaten and 'raped relentlessly for a month in a warehouse' amid 1,000% increase in sexual violence against children on crime-ravaged island

A 16-year-old miss has been drugged, beaten and raped for a period successful a warehouse successful Haiti, amid a monolithic 1,000% surge of intersexual unit against children arsenic the crime-ridden land is taken implicit by gangs. 

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters successful Geneva that 16-year-old miss Rosaline was abducted by equipped men and taken to a warehouse, on with different young girls. 

'There she was extensively beaten,' helium said.

'She was past drugged and implicit the people of what she believes to beryllium a month, she was relentlessly raped.

'When the equipped radical realised Rosaline had nary 1 to wage her kidnapping ransom, she was released.'

Sexual unit against children successful violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold past year, the UN children's bureau said. 

Haiti has been mired for decades by governmental instability, made worse successful caller years by transgression gangs that person grown much powerful.

Gangs present power 85 percent of the superior Port-au-Prince and children - immoderate arsenic young arsenic 8 years aged - present marque up to fractional of each equipped groups, UNICEF said. 

'A staggering 1,000-percent summation successful intersexual unit against children successful Haiti has turned their bodies into battlegrounds,' Elder said.

'The tenfold rise, recorded from 2023 to past year, comes arsenic equipped groups inflict unimaginable horrors connected children.'

Haiti has nary president oregon parliament and is ruled by a transitional body, which is struggling to negociate utmost unit linked to transgression gangs, poorness and different challenges.

More than 5,600 radical were killed successful Haiti past twelvemonth arsenic a effect of pack violence, astir a 1000 much than successful 2023, according to the UN.

More than a cardinal Haitians person been forced to fly their homes, 3 times arsenic galore arsenic a twelvemonth ago.

'The suffering is immense,' Elder said, adding that a afloat '1.2 cardinal children unrecorded nether the changeless menace of equipped violence' successful the country.

Armed gangs present power 85 percent of Port-au-Prince, successful what helium described arsenic 'an astounding lawsuit of insecurity successful a superior city'.

Last twelvemonth unsocial kid recruitment into equipped groups surged by 70 percent, helium said.

'Many are taken by force,' helium said portion others were 'manipulated oregon driven by utmost poverty'.

'It's a lethal cycle: Children are recruited into the groups that substance their ain suffering.'