Rape is not a new problem in Haiti, where it seems as though acts of sexual violence have been committed with astonishing impunity for decades – even becoming a relatively common method of political leverage during the country’s frequent periods of upheaval. This text narrates the personal experiences of rape many women in Haiti have lived through after the 2010 earthquake. It describes how rape has been dealt with in the Haitian legal system for the past 30 years and how the earthquake wiped out this modest progress.