They weren’t there by themselves. It was a university-sponsored service trip to Haiti. It was a group of students along with several faculty advisors.
Which is almost worse than nothing in that country.
Have you ever been to the Caribbean, or the northern coastal countries of South America?
You think a couple of "chaperones" can protect them?!
That's hilarious.
I have to run large projects with teams of men (as in, guys who really don't have a problem defending themselves, most of them are from the garden spots of America such as East Oakland, San Leandro, West Hayward...Raiders fans, which anyone from the Bay Area will understand) and we don't even THINK about going to Haiti.
It's, um, a matter of knowing the territory.
Y'all just go right on thinking that it's just some sort of peaceful little place full of Virtuous Poor People, waiting for the day when The Beneficent White People will arrive to minister to them.
The reality is that they consider people like that to be food, and not much more.
It's really fun to read all the idiotic comments on this thread back to me. Everyone is so earnest! How nice.
Once again, twinkies....no one in their right mind sends a bunch of young girls to Port-Au-Prince on their own, and 2 clowns from some university is very much "on their own", maybe worse since they might have felt protected.
The only way you're protected in Haiti is if you happen to have a large caliber, high fire rate weapon and the willingness to use it if necessary.