Human Predators Stalk Haiti's Vulnerable Kids

[Missizzy]

I wonder if the high ranking military official could be the "minister" Silsby referred to. Note, she did not use the word "pastor" or "missionary" as she did with some others. She said "minister". That word is used for official positions in the DR.

ITA, i.b.nora, about the comments about documents. Not only Puello seems to put an awful lot of stock in documents, but so did Silsby. I would think that Judge Sainvil could follow the paper trail of these so-called documents and clearly determine what is going on.

Is it truly possible that Silsby was horribly unlucky in just meeting the wrong people? That she truly was trying to set up an orphanage/island hide-out and fell into the laps of the bad guys? Or did the bad guys take advantage of her naivete and help her as much as possible thinking she'd be the perfect "front" for a supply of children. Was the primo duper, duped?

I wish Ms. d'Adesky would give us a little more. Why doesn't she name the trafficker? She's playing the drama card a bit much for me.

It's a "tune in tomorrow" tone. Not at all like her usual writing.

 

[Missizzy]

http://bastardette.blogspot.com/

More on Puello. We've seen most of this before but I like to keep an eye on this blog.

And an interesting snip from a comment from someone posting as "pedrochemical" on the DR Forum:

http://www.dr1.com/forums/haiti-earthquake/100199-who-can-stop-tragedy-35.html

"I think that this episode is bringing to light a business in which people are facilitating adoptions, perhaps quite legally up until these fools got caught, and making a stink load of cash.

There are respectable people on the North coast involved in this trade. They prefer to set themselves up as pious, holy people but they have a bottom line like the rest of the world. The bottom line it seems is VERY FAT INDEED.

Remember, we are talking about (legally) buying and selling children.
People should know about the money trail....."

more at link

 

[Missizzy]

In "reading" Jorge's new blog, I've been able to pick out that he's got quite a CV there. Used car salesman, grocery store worker, satellite dish repairman. I wonder if he left out the part of cattle wrangling in Wyoming?

And just an innocent question. If the mother of his children is in prison and his Mom is in the DR, who's watching his kids? Who's supporting them? Child support enforcement of El Salvador is probably on the list of those hunting him.

 

[Missizzy]

It would be interesting to look at the guest list of the El Lino Hotel during the time Silsby was staying there. Also, the reservation list for the dining room.

 

[Missizzy]

Can't anyone get it "right"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world/americas/24orphans.html?th&emc=th

Questions Surface After Haitian Airlift

".........But for 12 of the children, last month’s airlift transported them from one uncertain predicament to another. As it turns out, those children — between 11 months and 10 years old — were not in the process of being adopted, might not all even be orphans and are living in a juvenile care center here while the authorities determine whether they have relatives in Haiti who are able to take care of them.

The details of the children’s departure — and what that could mean for relations between the United States and the Haitian government, which later detained 10 Americans for trying to take children out of the country without authorization — remain unclear....."


more at link

 

[i.b.nora]

It would be interesting to look at the guest list of the El Lino Hotel during the time Silsby was staying there. Also, the reservation list for the dining room.

It seems like The Baptists might have only stayed at the Hotel Lina that one night and I venture to say, barely that.
Quote from Haitivox first article: "The director of "His Home for Children" in Haiti said a bus had turned up at his orphanage (near Delmas 60) late Sunday night, unannounced, with a missionary group that asked him to turn over remaining children in his care. He declined, telling d'Adesky 'it smelled fishy'".

 

[Missizzy]

http://bastardette.blogspot.com/

New info posted this afternoon on "Laura Silsby's Texas Missionaries Revealed".

 

[Missizzy]

Per TM's advice, I read the Puello article. It is, indeed, a good read. You know you've got problems when a woman doesn't even know the true identity of her husband:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world/americas/24puello.html


"But even his wife, Ana J. Galvarina Ramírez Orellana, was sometimes confused about his identity.

When they first started dating, she said, she thought his name was Georges Albert Simard Puello. Then, after American authorities unsuccessfully sought to extradite him on suspicions that he was trying to smuggle migrants from Canada to the United States, he informed her that he was actually Jorge Aníbal Torres Puello.

Speaking from a jail cell in El Salvador last week, Ms. Ramírez said her mysterious husband, who had repeated brushes with the law, changed his identity with ease and left her behind in the advanced stages of pregnancy when the police sought the two of them last year in connection with the Salvadoran sex trafficking ring. Ms. Ramírez was jailed on the trafficking charges.

She now suggests that she may soon be divorcing him."


That might not be as easy as it sounds. First, Ana needs to figure out who she's really married to. I note that while Puello roams free and laps up the attention, he leaves women behind in jail. What a guy.

 

[Missizzy]

I'm sorry, i.b.nora, as I know you are certain that Puello didn't know Silsby before her arrest. I respect your position, I really do. But...

"Instead, it appears that on Jan. 31 Mr. Torres called the Idaho church that five of the 10 missionaries attended and, using the name Jorge Puello, offered his legal services pro bono."

Yeah, right!!!!! Just a simple cold call from a CONcerned man.

 

[truckbomb]

Yesterday Truck sent an email to our Mr. Torres. Here was my email (natually in spanish)
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Sr. Torres, ¿Encontró usted a Sra. Silsby antes de las autoridades Haitianas la detuvo?

Su amigo

Juan
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Trans: Mr. Torres, Did you meet Ms. Silsby before the authorities detained her?

Your Friend
John

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Torres replyed this evening with:

Nunca conoci yo a esa señora antes de el arresto de ella.

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Trans: I never met this lady before her arrest.

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Folks, I cannot vouch for the truth of the matter asserted but it is interesting that one of this board is in direct contact with him.

 

[Missizzy]

Thanks Truckbomb for posting your correspondence with Señor Puello. I would say his word is at least as good as, say....US real estate......that's the ticket.

I'm almost certain that he is trolling for the highest bidder for his story. No doubt that he is here relishing every bit of attention we afford him.

FWIW, I've raised 9 sons and my three oldest are 29, 33, and 35. I have studied Puello's photos carefully and I don't think this man is 32. I think he's a good bit older. It's hard to imagine that he's squeezed so much living into three decades.

 

[i.b.nora]

I'm sorry, i.b.nora, as I know you are certain that Puello didn't know Silsby before her arrest. I respect your position, I really do. But...

"Instead, it appears that on Jan. 31 Mr. Torres called the Idaho church that five of the 10 missionaries attended and, using the name Jorge Puello, offered his legal services pro bono."

Yeah, right!!!!! Just a simple cold call from a CONcerned man.

I do think it was a cold call. Jorge is an opportunist, always looking for a new target, seems to me.

 

[jeff_jones]

I do think it was a cold call. Jorge is an opportunist, always looking for a new target, seems to me.

I've come to the same conclusion. He craves the limelight. And - unintentionally (or not?) - this case has given him the notoriety to face the Salvador charges as a "celebrity" instead of just any other Joe Blow.

He's very shrewd and very dumb at the same time.
His specialty is "fixing paperwork" (getting Salvadoran nationality, offering naturalizations online, trying to recruit escorts online).
Not child trafficking.
His realtor activities (if any) were limited to trying to peddle Santo Domingo projects (e.g. building Shalom I & II) and rentals. No obvious North Coast connections.

The HaitiVox report today didn't bring new elements. That Silsby had a (real) lawyer in the DR called Sencìon has been known for a while. The report links her to a lady called ... Asuncion ... (from a 2006 State Dept country report) but that's hypothetical.

Silsby strikes me as someone who was desperately looking for a turnaround in her life. Her son's wedding in the DR last summer gave her the opportunity to visit the place. She loved it. With the same pizzazz and energy of her previous ventures she motivated and mislead others.
When they got arrested, Puello saw the opportunity to make some extra $$ and become a hero at the same time. Any normal organization would have told him "Thanks, but no thanks", but as this was a DIY setup with no experience whatsoever, they said "Why not?" And the rest is history.

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[pinkpuddytat]

Mr. Torres could not fully explain why he became involved in the Americans’ case when he knew arrest warrants were out for him. But even with the obvious risk of exposure, he seemed to delight in the media attention. “I’m in demand,” he said of the many journalists trailing him at the time, not the law enforcement officials now in pursuit.[/B][/FONT][/SIZE

You could fill up a whole psych hospital with the cast of characters involved in this case . . .

 

[pinkpuddytat]

I would think that Judge Sainvil could follow the paper trail of these so-called documents and clearly determine what is going on.

If they existed, I'm sure he could. But it's pretty hard to follow a paper trail that consists exclusively of hot air emanating from the mouths of two psychologically unstable people, both of whom seem to be career criminals, and one of whom can't be located.

 

[pinkpuddytat]

I do think it was a cold call. Jorge is an opportunist, always looking for a new target, seems to me.

I think it was a cold call too, but I think it was quite a while before the band of bungling Baptists got arrested. Silsby had been making noise in the DR about her orphanage plans for a long while, and it's hard to imagine that Jorge hadn't gotten interested in the "opportunity" she presented early in her noise-making. An American with a good flow of money, an obvious lack of concern for ethics, and a good cover story about affiliation with an SBC church would have been quite a tempting target for Jorge.

 

[truckbomb]

I initiated the email to Puello and he answered. In doing some "Sleuthing" I came across his email address and tried it.

 

[i.b.nora]

Probably the single most interesting and best recent video I have seen is one by the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) taken in Haiti on this past Tuesday as Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter arrive for the hearing. The last 30 seconds are fascinating to me. You can see CNN's Gary Tuchman attempting to talk with Charisa, who seems bored to death and is more interested in chewing her gum, Laura is looking after Charisa by getting her away from Tuchman and protecting her from the reporters and camera people.

VIDEO at this web address:

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_na/2010-02-24/259834135140.html


Two Detained Americans Appear in Haitian Court
2010-02-24 12:56

"The two detained American missionaries appeared in court in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince yesterday. The judge was seeking information about their weekend testimony about how they wanted to set up an orphanage in neighbouring Dominican Republic."

 

[Missizzy]

i.b.nora--I'm almost willing to concede (almost, mind you) that Puello never spoke directly to Silsby before her arrest. I still think that he was in contact with many of the "mystery people" she worked with in the DR. I don't think he arrived with his henchmen totally "cold". He asked around and learned the story and then inserted himself. I'm sure he knows many of these same people through other business ventures and saw big bucks to be made. Who knows, he probably owes lots of favors. He got all those passports somehow. Somebody, still un-named, is paying big time to keep their bunnies covered, IMO.

 

[i.b.nora]

I am not sure who you mean by "his henchmen". I think he operates solo. If anyone aids him, it is probably family.
He talks about the passports in the comment section of that latest Haitivox article. And, his explanation sounds believable to me. Nowhere have I heard it said that the 13 passports were all issued to him. As he explains it, the passports are parceled out primarily to his kids.