A 20-year-old woman from a small village in Darfur told PHR investigators:

"They saw me and it was too late to run. They took me inside my house and raped me several times. They beat me, then they left me to die."

Some local women found this young woman and helped her, but it took her months to recover from the physical injuries. She later rejoined her husband in Chad, but she said she has not been able to conceive again, adding that she cannot bring herself to tell her husband, her relatives, or anyone in the refugee camp about being raped.