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Haiti Drops Kidnap Charges Against US Missionaries

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (April 26) -- A Haitian judge said Monday he has dismissed kidnapping and criminal association charges against 10 American missionaries detained for trying to take a busload of children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil said Laura Silsby, the last of the 10...

Haitian Kids Taken by US Missionaries Return to Parents

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (March 17) -- Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago. The 33 children had been living at the SOS Orphanage on Port-au-Prince's outskirts since police stopped a group of 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries from taking them across the...

Haiti Frees US Missionary; Leader Still Held

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (March 8) -- One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody. Charisa Coulter, 24, was taken from her jail cell to the airport by U.S. Embassy staff more than a month after she and...

Haiti 'Orphans' Taken by US Missionaries All Have Family

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Feb. 21) -- Although a U.S. Baptist group said it was trying to rescue 33 "orphans" by taking them out of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, all the children have close family still alive, The Associated Press has found. A reporter's visit Saturday to the rubble-strewn Citron slum, where 13 of the children...

Haiti Frees 8 of 10 Americans Held

(Feb. 17) -- A Haitian judge has released eight of the 10 American missionaries being held since being accused of trying to illegally remove 33 children from the country following the Jan. 12 earthquake. Judge Bernard Sainvil said that most of the Americans were free to leave Haiti without posting bail, on the condition...