Rapes soar as orphaned teenage girls forced into prostitution

CLOSE to 1,000 women and girls have been raped in camps in the capital since last year’s earthquake in Haiti and orphaned teenage girls are being forced to sell their bodies for as little as one dollar to feed themselves.

Ahead of today’s first anniversary of the devastating earthquake, rape victim support groups yesterday rounded on the government calling for measures to prevent sexual attacks in camps and the prosecution of rapists.

Fears of sexual disease, the abuse of children and the continued insecurity in the country’s near 1,150 camps, prompted the calls which were backed by Amnesty International (AI).