Sexual assaults add to miseries of Haiti's ruins

Sexual assaults add to miseries of Haiti's ruins

From The New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice. Perhaps the worst part of the whole ordeal, she said, was the place where her kidnappers had chosen to imprison her. That they abducted her was terrifying. That they raped her, repeatedly, was too horrendous to absorb just yet. But stashing her in the ruins of a home? Making her crawl on her stomach beneath a collapsed slab into a destroyed house where they hid her in a pocket of rubble? That was torture, she said. Click here to read the rest of the story.