Port-au-prince—When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, a lanky 26-year-old woman, who asked to be called Rolonda, gathered her belongings and moved with her mother, her brother and her five-year-old daughter into a field where they would be safe from the aftershocks and falling debris of the capital's crumbling buildings. Rolonda strung up a pair of bed sheets for shelter.
It was 7 o'clock in the evening, two days later, when the gang of men passed through her camp, armed with guns. Her family watched in horror as Rolonda was dragged away, screaming. No one tried to help. They forced Rolonda into an abandoned building and tied her up. At least a dozen men raped her that night, and every day after, for four days.
“I can recognize 10 of the men who raped me,” she says. Sitting in an office at a small law firm in Port-au-Prince,...
