Urgent Prayer Needed, Children Taken Away

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[Spudx7]

On Saturday, 6 of our children along with the parent/escort of one of the children, another a couple other escorts and Maria all flew to Port au Prince after being notified by U.S. Embassy staff that their paperwork to leave Haiti was complete including the signature of the Haitian Prime Minister. They arrived at the airport and were sitting in the waiting room waiting for the Embassy staff to come so they could board their charter plane. Before the Embassy staff arrived, they were verbally attacked by a large group of Haitians who were at the airpot accusing them of trafficking children and kidnapping. These Haitians knew nothing about our group or the children, they simply attacked. The children were terrified as well as the adults. These Haitians called the police and our children and staff were taken, illegally, to a police station where they were held for hours. The U.S. Embassy staff were immediately on this situation, but as in all things in Haiti, it took time. By the end of the day, our children were brought to a Haitian approved creche, which turned out to be a refuge tent city with no bottles or supplies for our babies.

[Spudx7]

This orphanage is run by the family of a friend of mine. She sent an e-mail asking for prayer...what the Haitian government is doing to these children is terrible.

CNN should be covering this today, we don't have cable and I am very curious as to how this was covered. Has anybody seen it? Thanks for indulging me!

Also, please keep the children and their waiting ‘forever families’ in your prayers. Thank you.

[R. Scott]

These Haitians called the police and our children and staff were taken, illegally ...

Illegally? Illegal by Haitian law or ours?
With the amount of trafficking in children these days I couldn't blame the Haitian police or people for being careful. Clearing it with the local police and obtaining a police escort would have avoided the incident.

[Spudx7]

Illegally by Haitian law...they had all the required paper work. All the police needed was to see that. Instead, the kids & babies are in a tent with no bottles, diapers or adults to care for them. The American Embassy and a MN Senator are working on this...the police are acting illegally and the children are suffering.

[Spudx7]

One more clarification, these are not children who were orphaned by the earthquake, their adoptions were underway before the quake hit. The Haitian government is trying to move the paperwork more quickly in order to make room in orphanages for children left orphans by the earthquake.

[chris_bdba]

I have not seen anything about this story and I’ve been forced to see CNN all day.I can’t believe anyone would go to Haiti rigth now on their own without security of their own.