Port-au-Prince.– Laura Silsby, the last of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping is facing a new charge.
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil says she has been charged for allegedly attempting to bus child earthquake survivors to
the Dominican Republic on January 26.
According to press reports, Silsby already could face trial on kidnapping and criminal-association
charges from her group's attempt to take 33 children across the border
without permission three days later.
Saint-Vil has added the new charge of "organization of irregular
trips," from a 1980 law restricting travel out of Haiti that was signed
by then-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. The judge said Friday he has until early May to decide whether to release Silsby or order a trial.
Written by: generoso, 13 Mar 2010 10:02 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Baloney, it is all part of "legal posturing" and maneuvering.
She will be let out free, as soon as the "officials" get their "pension"
money.
Written by: abc200, 13 Mar 2010 10:45 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
It is good to see due legal process being carried out.
S.
Written by: Grosero, 13 Mar 2010 10:48 AM
From: United States
treat her like the Chinese national police would...
ONE...9mm.....to the back of the Head!!!!
That is after she digs her own grave...sic
Written by: danny00, 13 Mar 2010 12:27 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
wonder who she had on the dominican to help her?
u know their was a domincan involved dont u?
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
This is a case of a "do-gooders" intent gone awry.
Why don't people just mind their own business instead of trying to change the world to what they want it to be.
We'd all be better off if we left everyone to stew in their own juices fro a couple of generations.
TexasBill
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
let give them 15 years all of them.
Written by: Yucahu, 13 Mar 2010 3:56 PM
From: United States, Miami
I think she is being used as a scapegoat to prove that they are getting tough on child traffic. It is a worrisome issue.
Written by: cejay, 13 Mar 2010 5:26 PM
From: United States, A beautiful Location
This is BS!!! Question: Where will these kids have a chance of real life, food and education -Haiti or United States??????? Hell, half of the children involved parents are dead for godness sake and these people are christians from a church in Idaho not the ghetto in New York.
Written by: Pepe32, 13 Mar 2010 10:12 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Due process in Haiti...someone is smoking red crack again!!
Haitians don't like outsiders moving in on their child slavery business ,plus these "evil" people wanted these kids to be placed with families unlike the "honest" smugglers Haiti prefers who place these kids in the "human services" .
This is so bizarro world ,the criminals can do whatever they want but a couple of well intentioned people are run through the coals!! only afronazis and left wing scum take pleasure or see justice in this!
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Stealing Restaveks to give them a better life .....what a crime
Written by: pelaut, 14 Mar 2010 8:28 AM
From: United States
All they ever had to do was come prepared to pay off.
American altruism meets American greed.
Written by: MitaR, 14 Mar 2010 8:53 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Well if you say that taking those children's into DR illegal and then try to register to take them abroad is not a crime.
Written by: abc200, 14 Mar 2010 9:13 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
There is no way US would take in 2 million Haitian chilren to give them a better life. These are 'trophy' children bought and sold. Once they have lost their charm they could end up in US orphages or worse.
Just because the Hatians are buying and selling children doesn't make it right for US citizens to do so, If these people were well intentioned they would sponsor a child in its own community taking care of education, food and helping that community to develop. International adoption is akin to trafficking and many conservatives believe this as well. Children should be adopted by their own ethnic group - like it or not a black Hatian child is going to meet a lot of problems in a predominately white neighborhood.
S.
Written by: abc200, 14 Mar 2010 9:26 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Studies make the case for adoption within ethnic groups:
"This important study provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of research into the development of adoption policy and practice regarding black and minority ethnic children in the care of local authorities...I found this book intellectually stimulating and often provocative - it does not make comfortable reading but in the final analysis the case for retaining a commitment to placing children in families which reflect their ethnicity is strongly made." - Felicity Collier, the Director of British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering.
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335200028.htmlPeople like gp2 would fall down on even US guidlines for transcultural
adoption:
they do not value all cultures.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_trans.cfmS.
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Abc bases this fantasy on his own cruel childhood when he was sold into slavery at a monastery of High Anglican pedophiles and was traumatized from eating all those bangers ..... the UK a historic center of child abuse
From: United States
What happened? I thought that they were all exonerated and sent back to the US? How and why did this one particular American stayed behind and held-up by Haitian authorities? It is most likely that she had the least amount of money and is being detained as rasome sacrifice.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
In every actionof this type, there must be a scapegoat.
I would imagine that the woman being held fit that description and the Haitian Judicial, like the Dominican one, has become skewed and relentless in it's pursuit of "justice" under the Haitian/Dominican definitions.
Both systems are corrupt troughout.
TexasBill
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Hello Bill nice to see you back we missed you and your level headed comments
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
The cannibals were paid to eat her last
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Hey TB Belial has returned like a bad penny....... find a thread he is on and give him a slap for old times sake
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She will be let out free, as soon as the "officials" get their "pension"
money.
S.
ONE...9mm.....to the back of the Head!!!!
That is after she digs her own grave...sic
u know their was a domincan involved dont u?
Why don't people just mind their own business instead of trying to change the world to what they want it to be.
We'd all be better off if we left everyone to stew in their own juices fro a couple of generations.
TexasBill
Haitians don't like outsiders moving in on their child slavery business ,plus these "evil" people wanted these kids to be placed with families unlike the "honest" smugglers Haiti prefers who place these kids in the "human services" .
This is so bizarro world ,the criminals can do whatever they want but a couple of well intentioned people are run through the coals!! only afronazis and left wing scum take pleasure or see justice in this!
American altruism meets American greed.
Just because the Hatians are buying and selling children doesn't make it right for US citizens to do so, If these people were well intentioned they would sponsor a child in its own community taking care of education, food and helping that community to develop. International adoption is akin to trafficking and many conservatives believe this as well. Children should be adopted by their own ethnic group - like it or not a black Hatian child is going to meet a lot of problems in a predominately white neighborhood.
S.
"This important study provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of research into the development of adoption policy and practice regarding black and minority ethnic children in the care of local authorities...I found this book intellectually stimulating and often provocative - it does not make comfortable reading but in the final analysis the case for retaining a commitment to placing children in families which reflect their ethnicity is strongly made." - Felicity Collier, the Director of British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering.
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335200028.html
People like gp2 would fall down on even US guidlines for transcultural
adoption:
they do not value all cultures.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_trans.cfm
S.
I would imagine that the woman being held fit that description and the Haitian Judicial, like the Dominican one, has become skewed and relentless in it's pursuit of "justice" under the Haitian/Dominican definitions.
Both systems are corrupt troughout.
TexasBill