{"id":91954,"date":"2026-07-17T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91954"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:57:47","slug":"they-said-i-had-to-kill-him-the-haiti-gangs-forcing-children-into-a-life-of-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/they-said-i-had-to-kill-him-the-haiti-gangs-forcing-children-into-a-life-of-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They said I had to kill him\u2019: The Haiti gangs forcing children into a life of brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2824bV.img?w=768&h=491&m=6&x=517&y=219&s=388&d=235\" alt=\"Youths in downtown Port-au-Prince near cars placed by residents as a barricade to deter the gangs from entering their neighbourhood, May 2024. Photograph: Ram\u00f3n Espinosa\/AP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Davensky was eight years old, he was kidnapped from school. An armed gang pulled a black bag over his head, dragged him from class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/they-said-i-had-to-kill-him-the-haiti-gangs-forcing-children-into-a-life-of-brutality\/ar-AA282DEo?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a59fb4a808348f29d3c3ad4c6a3c017&ei=15\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 When Davensky was eight years old, he was kidnapped from school. An armed gang pulled a black bag over his head,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gangs-Haiti.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91955,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91954\/revisions\/91955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}