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There is no dispute about the fact that the missionaries had parental permission, so it comes down to trusting the Haitian government's judgment or the missionaries.

Haiti is a cesspool of corruption and evil and self induced poverty. It is the worst place on earth by such a wide margin, that whatever the second worst place is is a paradise by comparison. I'd trust the judgment of a group of flaky do-gooders from the second worst country on earth over the judgment of the Haitian government, which has no problem with 300,000 children being enslaved by fellow Haitians.

There is no dispute about the fact that the missionaries had parental permission

Yes there is. SOME of the children's parents have surfaced to say they gave permission, but most of those also report having been misled about where the children were being taken and for how long. Silsby was running around showing them pictures of a resort with a swimming pool, but that was just a hotel she had made an agreement to rent, but did not actually have the money to pay for beyond a very brief period. She also told parents about a school the children would attend, except that there was no school. Silsby had no permanent staff lined up to care for the children, educationally or otherwise. She was posting requests on websites for volunteers to come down for stints as short as two weeks to staff the "orphanage". She had no intention or means of doing background checks on these volunteers (if they ever turned up), meaning this was setting up a classic opportunity for pedophiles to sign up to "help".

Also, a lot of the children were handed over to the group by other relatives, informal guardians, etc, even though some apparently had at least one living parent. These people had no legal authority to give anyone permission to take the children out of the country.

And on top of all this, the Prime Minister had issued an order shortly after the earthquake prohibiting the removal of ANY children from the country without full legal documentation (including passports, which none of these children had) AND his own personal signature. This was to prevent trafficking of children during the post-earthquake chaos. Anybody who was caught trying to remove children from the country without full legal authorization would have been arrested.