The other shoe drops, seemingly. It looks like the scandal is about to go away.
But. I thought these were orphans? How do you get parental permission for an orphan?
One investigative reporter in Haiti following up on this situation said he could only find one family that would _not_ consider giving up their kids (and they were talking adoption, not this situation where the kids could return), if it promised them a better life. And some of the parents of the kids involved in this case said they wouldn't be able to care for the kids if they were forced to take them back. It's a very difficult situation.
Let’s see: Idaho, Republican, Caucasian.......OK, I get the picture....Hill and Barry don’t give a rats rear.
Some of them were not orphans at all. Think about it. You’d give your kids away - gladly - if you thought they’d have a better life with white folk. I think this stinks to High Heaven. I think they took advantage of the parents right in the worst catastrophe of their lives. They were vulnerable. I’m not saying I think these Christians should go to jail or anything. But I am saying there are consequences to dumb stupid ignorant behavior.
Here is the scam. The orphans go to America and then the parents are miraculously found alive! Praise the Lord! The parents can come to America and get ENDLESS freebies. So YOU American suckers can pay for it.
Keep it up and bankrupt your America kids future you idiots! Haitians and other illegals have ruined FL schools. Your American child can now learn Creole which is pidgin French.
Lock these Baptists up so they can do a prison ministry in Haiti instead of bringing Haitians back to America to bankrupt FL and America.
Each country has laws in place for parental relinquishment,
but all of them involve signatures of the parents and
often witnesses and official seals.
Haitian orphanages are full of non-orphans. Haitian parents put their kids in orphanages because they can’t feed or care for them, and they don’t want to give them to wealthier Haitian families that will use them as slaves.
This used to be common in US orphanages in the 19th and early 20th centuries, too.
Many of the children in Haiti’s orphanages were taken there by their parents (pre-earthquake). They just could’nt feed and care for them. Our friends with a haitian son have actually met their son’s biological family, and that was the case there.
It is a common practice in Haiti, prior to the earthquake, for poor parents to gve their children to orphanages and for adoption.
“Before last month, Haiti already had 380,000 children in orphanages. That was certain to grow in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 quake, which wiped out what little most people here had. In the past few weeks, some orphanages say they have seen relatives hoisting children over the walls and running away.
Many of Haiti’s hundreds of orphanages operate in virtually medieval conditions, with little money or regulation; only 67 are licensed for adoptions, and many aren’t registered with the government.
At one orphanage visited this week by a reporter, more than 50 children, including an infant girl only a few weeks old, crowded into a compound of a half-dozen fetid rooms. The children weren’t allowed to use the only toilet, which was reserved for the staff, but instead used a primitive latrine. Human feces lined a gutter near the latrine, just inches away from a muddy puddle where a toddler busied himself playing with a plastic cup.”
For some reason many on FR have been quick to label these Christian missionaries as “child traffickers.” There is no evidence of that.
This whole situation reminds me of the black social workers in the US objecting to white parents adopting black children. Politics before child welfare.