Christians Charged With Stealing Children?
February 2, 2010 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under International
Abduction or helping, you decide.
US BAPTISTS CHARGED WITH ABDUCTING HAITIAN CHILDREN
KIDS “NOT ORPHANS”
DO-GOODERS IN HAITIAN DO-DO
by Michael Travis of thelastcrusade.org
Most of the 33 Haitian children taken by a US group of Baptists in an alleged attempt to move them out of Haiti have family members that survived the earthquake, a care centre chief has said.
Patricia Vargas, regional director of the SOS Children’s Village, where the children are being cared for, told the AFP news agency that officials at the Haitian Institute of Social Welfare told her “most of the kids have family”.
Miss Vargas said some of the older children of the group had confirmed the officials’ words. Children over the age of seven said that “their parents are alive, and some of them gave us an address and phone numbers,” she said.
The children are being cared for at the centre in Croix des Bouquets, a town west of the capital Port-au-Prince, which was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Jan 12 that left up to 200,000 dead.
The US embassy in Haiti said on Sunday that ten US citizens were being held for “alleged violations of Haitian laws related to immigration.”
The ten Americans in custody are members of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho, and the Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho.
The team allegedly traveled to Haiti to help rescue children from one or more orphanages that had been devastated in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12 and to transport them to Magante on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, where the New Life Children’s Refuge (NLCR) intends to construct a school, church, and orphanage.
The children range in age from 2 months to twelve years.
Laura Silsby, the director of NLCR, said the arrests were the result of a mistake.
But Mr Christallin said: “This is an abduction, not an adoption.”
The Haitian government has tightened its travel restrictions for children in the country, and said the prime minister will for the time being have to sign off on every minor’s departure abroad.
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