Last month disaster on the line of a magnitude seven struck the island of Haiti. Death and destruction was everywhere. Chaos was just around the corner. Then along came the world to lend a helping hand. In the midst of the devestation, a decision was made to help those who could not help themselves; the children.
Along with that decision came the consequences, as we read in this report from the BBC...
BBC NEWS
US missionaries face Haiti judge
Haitian and US officials are discussing whether 10 Americans held in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country should be prosecuted in the US.
The five men and five women from an Idaho-based Christian group are due to appear before a judge who will decide whether they will face charges.
The Haitian authorities have accused the Americans of child trafficking.
The missionaries say the children have no parents and were being taken to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
They say they did not know they had done anything wrong and believed they had been given the right paperwork to take the children out of the country.
Haitian aid workers say some of the children appear to have surviving relatives.
The country’s government says it is now trying to find the families of the 33 children involved and is reinforcing security at the country’s borders.
“Whether they will have to follow the process here in Haiti or to follow the process in the United States, it is for the judge to decide about it based on the law in Haiti,” said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8491996.stm
Published: 2010/02/01 17:14:58 GMT
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