[wild74]

Southern Baptist in Idaho, that has to be a heck of a mission field...Haiti now that is another story why they think they could have gotten away with sneaking children out of Haiti, I have not clue

[svcw]

They were not sneaking the children out. They were trying to move them to the Dominican Republic orphanage and they believed their paper work was in order.

[livius]

They weren’t trying to sneak them anywhere. They had all the paperwork and were taking them to a reputable orphanage in DR, but the government changed the rules couple of days ago and apparently when they got to the border, they didn’t have a permit that didn’t even exist at the time they began the project.

This is all a show by the Haitian government. They know perfectly well that teh Baptist group is not involved in child trafficking, most of which takes place right in Haiti and involves Haitians only, but they wanted to hang some white Americans out to dry, and they found them.

[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. 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.