Clinton Brokers Deal over Haiti Orphan Abductions”.
Clinton Brokers Deal over Haiti Orphan Abductions”.
[This headline is misleading, because most of the children were not even orhans.]
A DIPLOMATIC deal over the 10 American missionaries jailed in Haiti on child abduction charges may lead to the release this week of all except the group’s leader, Laura Silsby, according to legal sources in Port-au-Prince.
The intervention of Bill Clinton, the former president, who is co-ordinating relief efforts in Haiti, may accelerate the resolution of an affair that has embarrassed the US government, dismayed relief agencies and angered many Haitians who believe their plight is being exploited by unscrupulous foreigners.
During a visit to Port-au-Prince on Friday, Clinton said the Haitian government was “not looking for some big fight. They just want to protect their children … I think they’ll find a way to defuse the crisis”.
Edwin Coq, the Haitian lawyer representing the missionaries, has applied for the release of his clients pending further investigations, but he acknowledged that Silsby might be treated more severely because of her alleged role in organising the attempted removal of 33 children from Haiti without authorisation.
…Coq said of his clients: “Laura was the only one who had knowledge of what was going on. The rest came to Haiti to help. It is scandalous that they are being detained.”
Silsby’s future has been clouded by US reports that she was pressing ahead with plans to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic even though she appeared to be in serious financial trouble at home.
A month after she founded her charity, the New Life Children’s Refuge, last November, her Idaho home was repossessed. She also faces several lawsuits over unpaid bills and employee wages relating to an internet business she had founded, PersonalShopper.com.
Silsby had visited the Dominican Republic and Haiti in December and appeared to have chosen a former hotel in the northern Dominican resort of Cabarete as a possible refuge for Haitian children.
It is not yet clear whether she succeeded in buying the property, but she allegedly told Haitian police that was where she was taking the children. Her father, John Sander, has told reporters that the project was “just in the making”.
Despite reports that many of the children taken by Silsby’s group were not orphans, some Haitian parents described her arrival as a “miracle” that offered their children a rare chance of a better life abroad.
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CNN — “
“Some of the Americans have said they thought they were helping orphans, but their interpreters said this week that they were present when group members spoke with some of the children’s parents.
Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince said they had willingly given their children to the Americans, who promised them a better life. The parents also said they had been told they could see their children whenever they wanted. “
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Sunday Times, CNN
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