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Remember This....It got awfully quite about the rape Armageddon that Latina girls were facing and that they had to be immediately brought in to the US to be saved. But Trump saying people are rapists is not nice, but Obama saying it is humanitarian........

Thousands of Girls and Women are Fleeing Rape, Sexual Violence and Torture in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala

These talking points have been developed by CGRS in collaboration with other national organizations leading the charge to protect unaccompanied children.

A Growing Number of Unaccompanied Children Arriving in the U.S. Are Young Girls.

40 percent of unaccompanied children who arrived in 2014 were girls, compared with 27 percent in the past.

In Honduras, Femicide — the Systematic Killing of Girls and Women with Impunity – Is Widespread.

In July 2014 the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women noted that violent deaths of women in Honduras had increased 263.4 percent between 2005 and 2013. The Special Rapporteur noted scores of concerns regarding the high levels of domestic violence, femicide, and sexual violence.
In Honduras there is a 95 percent impunity rate for sexual violence and femicide crimes. As noted by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, “the lack of accountability for violations of human rights of women, is the norm rather than the exception.”
An 11-year-old girl in Nueva Suyupa, Honduras resisted being robbed by two men. They dragged her off, cut a hole in her throat, stuffed her panties in it, and left her body in a ravine.

Three girls, including an 8-year-old, were recently raped and killed in Nueva Suyapa, Honduras. Two 15-year-olds were abducted and raped. The kidnappers told them that if they didn’t get in the car, they would kill their entire families.

Girls Are Fleeing Sexual Violence at the Hands of Gangs in Honduras and El Salvador.

Ms. L was raped by more than a dozen gang members in Honduras. After reporting the gang rape to the police, her family began to receive death threats. There are only three shelters in Honduras for rape survivors, but two of them operate as brothels. The one remaining shelter declined to take Ms. L in because the shelter could not protect her or any of the other shelter residents from gang violence. Ms. L had no choice but to flee Honduras.
Carlita, a 13-year-old, fled gang violence in El Salvador. She was kidnapped by the Zetas in Mexico, used for sex, and forced to be a drug mule for them, before escaping and ultimately making it to the U.S.
Ms. H survived multiple rapes in Honduras. After she fled, she was kidnapped by a Mexican gang that raped and tortured her. She eventually got to the U.S.

Ms. N and Ms. O, at ages 15 and 8, fled El Salvador. Their older female cousins had been forced to work as sex slaves for gang leaders. The gang threatened to kill Ms. N and her family. Ms. N and Ms. O fled to the U.S. and were placed in removal proceedings.

Ms. E fled El Salvador when she was 8 years old. Gang members had kidnapped her two older sisters. The girls’ mother did not want her 8-year-old daughter to suffer the same fate, so she arranged for her daughter to be brought to the U.S.

Many Gangs Use Sexual Violence as Part of the “price” or “rent” Demanded of Girls.

http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/talking_points_and_stories