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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 '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...

Americans' Adviser Says He's Innocent of Smuggling Charges

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Feb. 15) -- The man who served as legal adviser to 10 American missionaries jailed in Haiti on charges of child kidnapping acknowledged Monday that he is the suspect wanted in El Salvador on human smuggling accusations. In a call from an unknown location, Jorge Puello told The Associated...