As Lynn Higgins and Brenda Silver ask in their book Rape and Representation, "How is it that in spite (or perhaps because) of their erasure, rape and sexual violence have been so ingrained and so rationalized through their representations as to appear 'natural' and inevitab …

The arrest of four suspects means that 17 have now been accused in the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl last year.

"The world's response to Haiti is fully warranted - anything less would be reprehensible.