I agree. I’ve said several times that we don’t know what happened or what’s going on. But now the parents have testified that they did indeed agree to let the kids go with this group for adoption, so it’s looking a lot more like the group is innocent of wrong doing. As for not having a couple of forms properly signed, it’s been reported that Haiti presently doesn’t have a facility location for those services, so I don’t think there’s even much of a case to be made against them with respect to the incomplete paperwork. A very nagging fact keeps coming to mind, and that is that these people were arrested and incarcerated almost sinultaneous to 5,000 criminals being released from the prisons and jails because the authorities couldn’t care for them and the buildings weren’t safe. But they can incarcerate these American Christians who did indeed have permission from the parents to take these kids to a better place? That doesn’t pass the smell test. Couple all that with the level of corruption and crime within the government and we’re left with no credible claim by Haiti in this matter.
I believe the National Penitentiary collapsed...it was located in urban Port Au Prince..an awful medieval place where folks died and their corpses rotted or as legend says, they were cannibalized.
I hit a rich Haitian in the nose in 1990 over money he owed me and refused to pay and had to basically run for my life to escape being placed there by his family’s goons.
You went in there and you were in trouble.
According to this article the group refused to pay the $300/head “fee” to get the requested paperwork. They were arrested right after that.
http://www.kansascity.com/703/story/1728522.html
In an e-mail from the Idaho church that organized the mission, Keller read that the group tried three times to acquire the paperwork before they were asked to pay $300 a head for the children to cross the border. Culberth’s group refused, Keller said, and before long they were arrested.
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