U.S. immigration attorneys say there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women and girls from Central America seeking asylum in the United States after having been kidnapped and raped, according to Fox News Latino.

The country is terrorized by gangsters who discard their girlfriends when they know too much. Many of them being gang raped and murdered.

Threats prevent many women from reporting attacks therefore there are no reliable numbers on sexual violence in El Salvador. Instead, they flee the country.

A lawyer with Catholic Charities in Los Angeles Lindsay Toczylowski, said the number of women seeking asylum in the U.S. because of abuse and rape in El Salvador has started an evolution of gang warfare.

"It's what we see in other war situations around the world where rape is used as a weapon," she said.

El Salvador is the second highest per capita homicide rate in the world. The country is home to 6 million residents.

Mara Salvatrucha, El Salvador's 18th Street gangs, causes most of the violence. The gang was formed by immigrants in the United States. When the gang returned to El Salvador, it grew into tens of thousands of members.

Official numbers show just over 200 women who were murdered in 2014. Through August, only 361 rapes were reported.

According to the World Health Organization, the number of women who report rapes around the world still remains very low.

Criminologist Israel Ticas, who digs up clandestine graves for the Attorney General's Office documents his findings in a journal.

He shares stories of girls who haven't even reached the age of 18 who were raped, murdered, kidnapped and dismembered.

Some of the girls were chopped into pieces. Others could not even be identified.

A lot of the gang members are initiated by rape and murder to prove their commitment and to make sure they won't speak out about crimes.