10 Americans charged w/ kidnapping children in Haiti

[bik0]

Breaking news...

http://goo.gl/Ld5t

[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. Doesn't look like Jesus is going to save their sorry butts

[Mari333]

2. knr

[Mari333]

3. link

http://blog.taragana.com/politics/2010/02/01/ten-americans-charged-with-child-trafficking-in-haiti-16341/

[bik0]

4. Now the AP is reporting 9 of the 10 to be released. WTF?

NY Times & CBS news confirmed report of criminal charges against 10.

[Mari333]

6. ?

tell us when you get more

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. I think it means they'll be released into US custody for further prosecution.

There was a Haitian official a few days ago hoping that the U.S. would take over prosecution because Haiti's in such bad shape to do it themselves.

[suffragette]

13. Looks like the prosecutor has clarified that

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Haiti-Missionaries-Charged-With-Child-Kidnap-Says-Prosecutor-Jean-Ferge-Joseph/Article/201002115542685?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15542685_Haiti_Missionaries_Charged_With_Child_Kidnap_Says_Prosecutor_Jean_Ferge_Joseph


Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph made the announcement amid confusion over the fate of the group.
It was initially reported that nine of the 10 members of the Idaho-based Baptist Church had been released.

But Joseph quickly confirmed that they had in fact all been charged, with kidnap and "criminal association".
Their case has now been sent to an investigative judge.

"That judge can free you but he can also continue to hold you for further proceedings," the deputy prosecutor told the five men and five women in a hearing.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Not to mention this:

[Nikki Stone1]

7. AP:Attorney says US Baptists charged in child case

P....ORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.
Edwin Coq says the Americans also are charged with criminal association. The 10 appeared in court Thursday and were whisked away to a jail in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince.
Coq attended the session and has represented the group here.
Just minutes earlier, an attorney for the Americans in the neighboring Dominican Republic had said he expected nine of the 10 members of an Idaho-based church group were going to be released.

[bik0]

8. AP / LA Times: U.S. missionaries in Haiti charged with child kidnapping

U.S. missionaries in Haiti charged with child kidnapping

From Associated Press
February 4, 2010 | 11:58 a.m.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - en Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the earthquake were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association on Thursday, their Haitian lawyer said.

Edwin Coq said that a judge found sufficient evidence to file charges against the Americans, who were arrested Friday at Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic. Coq attended Thursday's hearing and has represented the entire group in Haiti.

The U.S. citizens, most of them members of an Idaho-based church group, were whisked away from the closed court hearing to jail in Port-au-Prince, the capital. One of them, Laura Silsby, waved and smiled faintly to reporters but declined to answer questions.

Coq said that under Haiti's legal system, there won't be an open trial, but a judge will consider the evidence. It could take the judge three months to render a verdict, Coq said.

Coq said a Haitian prosecutor told him the Americans were charged because they had the children in their possession. No one from the Haitian government could be reached immediately for comment.

Each of the kidnapping counts carries a possible sentence of five to 15 years in prison.

http://goo.gl/O1hi

[malaise]

10. Great news

Let all others with similar intentions learn from these arrests.
You will not be getting away with stealing Caribbean children.

[atreides1]

16. They'll learn alright

They'll learn what not to do, so they don't get caught!

It'll be even better if these people are released and allowed to leave the country, because the minute they're back here they'll have lawyers in court getting the charges tossed, because we all know how US judges love to turn Americans over to other countries to be put on trial.

[Solly Mack]

11. k/r

[Hannah Bell]

12. good. that woman is all about the $$$$

[Withywindle]

14. Good.

The arrogance and callousness and racism they displayed is just mindboggling. Let 'em rot in jail.

[Ernesto]

15. Works For Me! nt

[EmeraldCityGrl]

17. You have got to read this...

http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/1067267.html

Apparently Silsby has a record of breaking the law and scamming.

[malaise]

19. That's the link I've ben waiting to see

Thank you

<snip>
UNPAID WAGES

Fourteen claims, including two by the same employee, were filed against Personal Shopper Inc. for nonpayment of wages between March 14, 2008, and July 21, 2009, according to the Idaho Department of Labor.

Those claims led to nine liens against Personal Shopper Inc. The determination involved $21,460 in wages and $6,000 in penalties.

Five were appealed, dismissed or dropped.

The business' former marketing director, Robin Oliver of Eagle, filed a civil suit against Silsby and Personal Shopper Inc. in October for alleged unpaid wages, wrongful termination and fraud.

The suit says that Oliver was promised an annual salary of $110,000, with twice-monthly payments of $4,583.33. The suit alleges that Personal Shopper was delinquent on five payments, for a total unpaid wage claim of $22,016.65.

"In multiple e-mails during 2009, Ms. Silsby repeatedly told plaintiff that she had investors 'committed,' that the money was being 'wired,' and that investors were going to be providing funds," the suit says.

Silsby is due in 4th District Court at 2:45 p.m. next Wednesday; a jury trial is scheduled for Feb. 22.
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This is too good
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One more criminal - thankfully the children were rescued.

[Echo In Light]

18. Xians for child slavery. May Karma be swift