They’re not doing this voluntarily,” said Geeta Narayan, UNICEF’s representative in Haiti. “Even when they are armed with weapons, the child here is the victim.”

The Associated Press writes that the increase in child members is related to the worsening of poverty in the country, increasing violence, and political instability.

Jose Iglesias [email protected] Haiti’s armed-gang crisis just got worse — and even more complicated. A new report by the United Nations’ leading child welfare agency, UNICEF, says the number of children being recruited by the country’s ...