To: wild74
According to what I've read, the orphanage in Haiti collapsed, and they were transporting the children to the group's other (undamaged) orphanage on another part of the island, i.e. the Dominican Republic. They had been told that, due to the children's immediate needs and the urgency of the situation, the paperwork could be completed from the DR side, then were stopped at the border.
If I were a betting person, I would bet that it's a matter of not having given sufficiently big bribes to a sufficiently large number of Haitian government kleptocrats. Sorry if this offends anybody, but that's the way it is.
14 posted on
02/01/2010 6:25:19 PM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
("God bless the child who's got his own." Arthur Herzog Jr./Billie Holiday)
To: Mrs. Don-o
IOW, they can’t take care of their own children but will sell them for a ransom and call the good-hearted missionaries “traffickers.” What scum.
16 posted on
02/01/2010 6:28:07 PM PST by
La Enchiladita
( This must be what it feels like to live in a monarchy when some little kid becomes king ...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
According to what I've read, the orphanage in Haiti collapsed, and they were transporting the children to the group's other (undamaged) orphanage on another part of the island, i.e. the Dominican Republic
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Except that some of the kids were not even orphans and are now back with their legitimate families.
43 posted on
02/02/2010 6:09:37 AM PST by
wtc911
("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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