Friday morning I saw the following article in the NY Times:
Abuse Trails Central American Girls Into Gangs
“I thought it would be like my family,†Benky said of her reason for joining the gang, asking that her full name not be used. “I thought I’d get the love I was missing. But they’d hit me. They ordered me around. They told me I had to rob someone or kill someone, and I did it.â€
When she tried to leave the gang five years later, her fellow gang members shot her six times. The scars still visible on her body vouch for her story, as do social workers who visited her during the nine months she spent in a hospital.
Gang initiation was being forced to participate in group sex with the males in the group. She was 14 at the time.
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