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Activist: Haitian Missionaries Knew It Was Illegal
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Is this a case of human trafficking or do-gooders who failed to cross the t's and dot the i's? You be the judge.
Ronda Kaysen: The 10 Americans who were arrested in Haiti last week for attempting to illegally transport 33 children out of the country ignored warnings that their plans were against the law, an American human rights advocate told the United Nations in an e-mail.
The new revelations paint a darker picture of the Americans who are sitting in a Haitian jail in Port-au-Prince awaiting a hearing to determine their future.
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The Haitian government appears to want to send a message with this case. The list of charges against the 10 is serious, including charges of abduction of underage minors, human trafficking, and conspiracy. Silsby has maintained since her arrest that the group did nothing wrong, and that all of this is a paperwork mistake.
"We know that this is absolutely not trafficking and we know without a doubt that God is going to reveal truth and enable us to be free," Silsby told reporters from a jail cell.
But the journalist and human rights advocate Anne-christine d'Adesky penned an e-mail to the U.N. painting a different picture of how things transpired, one that shows that Silsby was not a naïve do-gooder, but a woman who willfully broke the law.
D'Adesky, who hails from a prominent Haitian family, said she met with Silsby on January 24 in a hotel in the Dominican Republic. Silsby told her that an unnamed Dominican official had given her the green light to transport the children.
"I informed her that this would be regarded as illegal even with some 'Dominican' minister authorizing, since the children are Haitian," d'Adesky wrote. D'Adesky told the Wall Street Journal that Silsby replied: "We have been sent by the Lord to rescue these children, and if it's in the Lord's plan we will be successful."
more here
http://www.momlogic.com/2010/02/ame...knew_actions_were_illegal_activist_claims.php
<snip>
Activist: Haitian Missionaries Knew It Was Illegal
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Is this a case of human trafficking or do-gooders who failed to cross the t's and dot the i's? You be the judge.
Ronda Kaysen: The 10 Americans who were arrested in Haiti last week for attempting to illegally transport 33 children out of the country ignored warnings that their plans were against the law, an American human rights advocate told the United Nations in an e-mail.
The new revelations paint a darker picture of the Americans who are sitting in a Haitian jail in Port-au-Prince awaiting a hearing to determine their future.
.....
The Haitian government appears to want to send a message with this case. The list of charges against the 10 is serious, including charges of abduction of underage minors, human trafficking, and conspiracy. Silsby has maintained since her arrest that the group did nothing wrong, and that all of this is a paperwork mistake.
"We know that this is absolutely not trafficking and we know without a doubt that God is going to reveal truth and enable us to be free," Silsby told reporters from a jail cell.
But the journalist and human rights advocate Anne-christine d'Adesky penned an e-mail to the U.N. painting a different picture of how things transpired, one that shows that Silsby was not a naïve do-gooder, but a woman who willfully broke the law.
D'Adesky, who hails from a prominent Haitian family, said she met with Silsby on January 24 in a hotel in the Dominican Republic. Silsby told her that an unnamed Dominican official had given her the green light to transport the children.
"I informed her that this would be regarded as illegal even with some 'Dominican' minister authorizing, since the children are Haitian," d'Adesky wrote. D'Adesky told the Wall Street Journal that Silsby replied: "We have been sent by the Lord to rescue these children, and if it's in the Lord's plan we will be successful."
more here
http://www.momlogic.com/2010/02/ame...knew_actions_were_illegal_activist_claims.php