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Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath (AP)

March 16th, 2010

In this photo taken March 14, 2010, women wait to receive medical attention for them and their children outside the women's clinic run by the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Operation, at the makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince. Women, girls and children as young as 2 years old, already traumatized by the loss of homes and loved ones in Haiti's earthquake, now are falling victim to rapists in sprawling and unmanageable tent cities that have become home to hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.


Tags: aftermath, Women, quake, rape, Victims

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