US missionaries in Haiti charged with child abduction
Ten US missionaries have been charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy for trying to smuggle children out of quake-ravaged Haiti.
If convicted they face lengthy jail terms, says the BBC's Paul Adams at the court hearing in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.
When stopped on the border last Friday, they said they were taking the children to a Dominican Republic orphanage.
But it has emerged some of the 33 youngsters had parents who were alive.
'Kidnappers'
The five men and five women, most of them from Idaho, were due to have a hearing earlier in the week, but that was postponed because of a lack of interpreters.
Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has labelled the Americans "kidnappers".
Residents in the village of Callebas told an Associated Press news agency reporter they had handed their children over through a local orphanage worker who said he was acting on the Americans' behalf.
The worker is said to have promised the families that the missionaries would educate their children in neighbouring Dominican Republic.
A number of parents in the badly-damaged village said they would find it difficult to provide for their children if they came back.
"I am living in a tent with a friend," one parent, Laurentius Lelly, told AP. He said he had given up his two children, ages four and six.(my view)-I told you that America had an agenda...when the fuckers are first ones to offer help and the first ones in....you CAN BET they want to do something illegel
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I wonder what religion they belong to. Not that it matters....it's still wrong! xxxxxxxxx
Yeah i wonder that too. 5 dumbass people make the whole country look bad. So sad that people can't just help out someone and not try to take advantage of the situation.
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