Now we return to the chaos in Haiti. Earlier this week we looked at the gang warfare

ravaging the nation where more than 700,000 people, more than half children, have been displaced by street warfare.

Tonight we look at the plights of those children and more. The fighting has sent poverty and hunger skyrocketing.

Children are caught between the gangs

and their tenuous futures. Special correspondent Marsha Biggs and videographer Eric O'Connor

report from the capital Port-au-Prince and a warning. Accounts of abuse and sexual violence

in this story may disturb viewers.

A typical morning scene in Haiti, children going to school, their uniforms ironed, hair

tied and cheerful bows.

But this is also an image that is often seen on social media, gangs taking over areas with

what looked to be children in their ranks.

This is an area at the beginning of the Sharm de Mars, which sees fighting almost daily,

and it can break out at any time.

There used to be kids at this intersection, begging, washing windows.

Now they've disappeared, leading some to wonder where they've all gone.

The children don't have anyone looking after them. They're in the street. leading some to wonder where they've all gone.

The children don't have anyone looking after them. They're in the street.

When they're starving, they go to the gang's bases. The gangs give them food,

and afterwards the kids become informants.

Jean-Rebelle dorsena is a member of the National Commission of Disarmament, Dismantlement and Reintegration.

Among other things, it works to create a dialogue between the state and armed groups.

He referred us to this video, the leader of the 400 Mabozo gang handing out what equates

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