Friday February 05, 2010
US missionaries in Haiti charged with child kidnap
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Ten US missionaries detained in Haiti were charged on Thursday with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly trying to take children illegally out of the country. Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph said the case was being sent to an [read more]
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Joshua (guest)
Feb 09,2010 @ 5:26AM
The Baptist knew they were doing ilegal things! It was the second attempt
at taking children out of haiti, they
tried it before with 40 other children.
I wonder how much money they were going to
sell for USA adoptions of these children?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/09/haiti.border.arrests/?hpt=T2

Officer: U.S. missionaries had tried to take other Haitian kids
 
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The group of American missionaries in Haiti facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country last week made an earlier, unsuccessful attempt at taking dozens of other children, a Haitian police officer said Monday.
The officer did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals. He told CNN that he had stopped the 10 Baptist missionaries, including group leader Laura Silsby, on January 26 as they tried to transport 40 children on a bus from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.
The officer said he discovered Silsby and the nine other Americans on a bus in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Petionville in the early afternoon of January 26 after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.
He stopped the group and ordered the children to get off the bus. He then directed Silsby to the Dominican embassy.
"I said what happened, and she (Silsby) told me, 'I have the paperwork to cross the Haitian Dominican border with 100 children,' " the officer said. A former attorney for the group, Edwin Coq, said the officer has testified of his account.
The officer was questioned by prosecutors last week in the case against the missionaries. Prosecutors no longer suspect him of any wrongdoing, and he is now a witness, according Coq, who is familiar with the prosecution's case file.
The police officer's superiors also confirmed his version of events. Lawyers for the Americans did not immediately answer calls for comment.
 
dwayne (guest)
Feb 09,2010 @ 5:41AM
I guess that's why the Haitian
officials are so mad at that group!
They were warned not to do it numerous times,
they'd tried it before,
had to give the 40 children up when the police caught them
and The group went back to steal 33 more children to sell
to American families. That Silsby woman from idaho is really
arrogant & has a colonial mentality.
Who's taking care of her children while she's digging around
the rubble in Haiti for children to exploit for cash?
John (guest)
Feb 09,2010 @ 6:37AM
I think Silsby was determined  and on a mission
to build her own Slave Plantation, er I mean Orphanage
in the DR.
Wilamena (guest)
Feb 09,2010 @ 6:41AM
a minimum of  $2500 per adoption x 73
free Haitian Orphans that She abducted found on the street.
 
Do the math!  Laura Silby
was going to get very rich from her plantation dreams indeed!
biscayne (guest)
Feb 10,2010 @ 3:44PM
 
 That Silsby Woman is crazy with
a messiah complex!
She said she wasn't going to take orphans from Haiti
& that their Families could visit them in the
Dominican Republic, but it's what
Silsby was planning on doing along  selling the orphans in the USA probably for profit!

 
Idaho woman faced financial woes before Haiti trip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002454.html
BOISE, Idaho -- In the days after the Haiti earthquake, Laura Silsby made a series of calls around the country to mobilize a trip to rescue orphaned children from the disaster.
She enlisted members of her Baptist church and told them she had all the necessary paperwork. She even found a Kentucky couple, Richard and Malinda Pickett, who had been trying to adopt three siblings from Haiti and told them she could get the children out.
The Picketts say they politely declined, figuring the youngsters were safe and would soon be evacuated to their new home.
"My wife told her that under no conditions should she try to move the kids - that would just interfere with our plans. But she called two more times, and the last time she called, on the 25th, she said she was getting on a flight and would like to pick up our kids," Richard Pickett said. "My wife, for the third time, told her no way - stay away from them." A few days later, Silsby and nine other Americans were charged in Haiti with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of the country without proper documentation. The 10 defendants remain in jail in Haiti.
 
 The Picketts said they were immediately suspicious of Silsby. The Kentucky couple didn't need her help - the government had already given them permission to go pick up the children. But Silsby persisted, they said.
She showed up at the Compassion for All orphanage in Haiti, asking to collect the Picketts' three adopted children and claiming to be Malinda Pickett's friend, according to Richard Pickett.
When the orphanage told her the children had been moved, Silsby went on to ask for any other kids she could have, Richard Pickett said. She paid a worker to take her to other orphanages in the region and translate for her.
"She asked for kids at each of the orphanages, and at the end of the day when no one would give her any, she cried," Richard Pickett said. "Why would you cry after you see these kids are being taken care of?"
The Picketts' adopted children are now with the couple in Bowling Green, Ky. Richard Pickett said he was recently interviewed by an agent with the Department of Homeland Security who is helping investigate the Silsby case.
 
 
Richard (guest)
Feb 14,2010 @ 9:48AM
this case is too strange!  The Man advising the
kidnappers from Idaho is peadophile involved with child prostitution
in el salvador!
 

http://www.idahostatesman.com/102/story/1079841.html

Man advising Idaho detainees in Haiti confirmed as fugitive
Jorge Puello is wanted on suspicion of child prostitution; Meridian church says he called to offer his services.


SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The man providing legal advice to American church workers charged with trying to take children out of Haiti did jail time in the United States years before emerging as the key suspect in a child prostitution ring in El Salvador, according to records and interviews.
The mother and stepfather of Jorge Anibal Torres Puello told The Miami Herald in an extensive interview Saturday the fugitive wanted by Salvadoran police was their son.
"That's him," a teary Ana Puello said from her modest home in the outskirts of Santo Domingo. "But those things they say about him, I doubt they're true. É He told me, 'Mami, I swear I didn't.' He would never hurt a child."
Though his wife was convicted in the case, Torres Puello left the country - wanted by Salvadoran police - before ending up in Haiti.
A self-styled lawyer with no law degree, Torres Puello has had other brushes with the law, including a charge in Miami in 1999 for possessing fake documents, records show. His bond was later revoked and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
The revelations represent another twist in the unfolding legal drama surrounding the church workers from Idaho, who have been jailed on kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children from Haiti without permission after the earthquake ripped through Port-au-Prince Jan. 12.
It's unclear how the 32-year-old Torres Puello became involved with the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, or when he met the group's controversial leader, Laura Silsby. For the past 10 days, Torres Puello has been a visible figure in the church case, granting interviews with reporters about his role as legal adviser to the group.
On Saturday, lawyers, church leaders and families of the detained Baptists said they didn't know Torres Puello until he contacted the church to offer his services after the arrests.
Torres Puello has been speaking for the group and hiring and firing their Haitian attorneys.
Florence (guest)
Feb 14,2010 @ 10:03AM
Haiti group's 'lawyer' linked to child sex ring!
ike they say_ birds of feather!
and the Haitian Parents willingly give up their
children to the missionaries for that stuff.
Haitian Parents will do anything not be financially
or morally  responsible for their own children.

If it means even the possibility of a life forced prostitution in another
country for their kids. Mothers don't care about their daughters  &
even on film their are Haitians Fathers are giving their sons over to
the male homos. They don't care, they just want the kids
out of their responibility but they'll keep making lots of  other kids
to have the same ill fate!
pimp for haitians (guest)
Feb 14,2010 @ 1:30PM
Lawyer in Haiti Trafficking Case a Pimp?
 
The American missionaries accused of child trafficking for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti may have a legal adviser representing them in the Dominican Republic who is wanted in El Salvador. The Salvadoran police suspect the lawyer, Jorge Puello, of leading a ring that deals in Central American and Caribbean women and girls, offering them jobs and then forcing them into prostitution in El Salvador. Puello said it was a case of mistaken identity, that his name was common in Latin America, that a Colombian drug dealer arrested with 25 IDs had one bearing his name, that his accusers should "bring the proof." The Commissioner of the Salvadoran police and presiding Haitian judge said that Puello looked like a Salvadoran file photo of the trafficking suspect, and the judge is launching his own investigation into the matter. Other tidbits about Puello don't check out. He says he has a law license, but records at the College of Lawyers in the Dominican Republic don't list his name; he said he's part of a 45-member firm, but his Santo Domingo office is too tiny to fit that many lawyers.
 
 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/lawyer-in-haiti-trafficking-case-a-pimp/smells-fishy/
Paul (guest)
Feb 14,2010 @ 1:50PM

I'm tired of reading about Haiti's problems! I have Haiti burnout.

Haiti is  becoming an open  gateway for people like that lately
they let any opportunist pimping pervs and money grubbing religious fanatic in to take and sell Haitian children.

 The Haitian parents gladly give their children to them. The Haitian parents can't be bothered with the responsibility or burdened with supporting their children or using any form of birth control! It's against their religious rights, but they will neglect, sell and pimp their children or try to pawn them off to another country to care for them. They are no better than
those living on the dole or welfare cheats who keep having babies that they know they can't feed.
Kerie (guest)
Feb 14,2010 @ 1:57PM
I read that one of the parents that
gave some Haiti children away to missionaries was
pregnant again. They'll be handing that
new baby over to white people to care for it after it's born
and making another one!

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