Haiti Earthquake?

**boomersooner** · 01-23-2010, 05:34 PM

All good points...I honestly don't know anything about why he went or what he and his father would be doing.....My son just came home and told me he was going.

**pomtzu** · 01-23-2010, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by boomersooner

All good points...I honestly don't know anything about why he went or what he and his father would be doing.....My son just came home and told me he was going.

If you find out - let us know please. I for one would be interested to hear the why and wherefore. It just seems a little odd to me to take a kid into that hell on earth. But....there may be a good reason behind it.

**boomersooner** · 01-23-2010, 06:22 PM

Yes, I will.....and they may have decided to keep him home....He wasn't at school on Friday, though....I really hope he didn't go....

**RICHARD** · 01-23-2010, 07:35 PM

I was on the phone with my sis earlier.

She was yelling at my 13 year old niece.

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Imagine spending ANY TIME with a 14 year old, in a place they did not want to be.

After he drove me crazy?

I'd make him to walk home.

**boomersooner** · 01-23-2010, 08:07 PM

Mine doesn't drive me crazy very often, thank the good Lord, but I've threatened the walk home thing!! LOL

**RICHARD** · 01-23-2010, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by boomersooner

Mine doesn't drive me crazy very often, thank the good Lord, but I've threatened the walk home thing!! LOL

From an island?

**boomersooner** · 01-23-2010, 09:09 PM

Not yet...but there's time.....

**RICHARD** · 01-31-2010, 10:14 PM

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14304041

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I am interested in what the 10 people in jail, in Haiti, were doing with the 30 kids.

Really now.....

**Catty1** · 01-31-2010, 11:02 PM

They were suspected of being part of the illegal adoption schemes. I guess they are being overly cautious.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=abWDWCsGSN00

Idaho Church Group Arrested in Haiti With 33 Orphaned Children

By Adriana Brasileiro

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Haitian police yesterday arrested 10 American Baptist Church members as they tried to bus 33 orphaned children across the border into the Dominican Republic allegedly without proper documentation, a spokesman for the Central Valley Baptist Church said.

The church said the group was “falsely arrested” and that steps were being taken to clarify the “misunderstanding” involving their members, according to a statement on its Web site.

“The goal was to rescue orphaned children who needed help,” Drew Ham, a member of the Meridian, Idaho-based church, said in a telephone interview today. A Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 150,000 and left an estimated 800,000 homeless.

The group was detained because the children lacked necessary adoption papers from the Haitian government, Laura Silsby, the group’s leader, said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday. Ham said he has not been able to contact Silsby and is in touch with U.S. State Department officials to obtain information about the legal proceedings in the case. He said he doesn’t know if the group has been charged with any crime.

Haiti’s Social Affairs and Labor Minister Yves Christallin told Agence France Presse the Americans were suspected of being part of an illegal adoption scheme and had “stolen” the children aged 2 months to 12 years-old. Christallin said the Americans did not have a government document authorizing the children to leave Haiti. Calls to the Ministry in Port-au-Prince were not answered today.

Silsby was planning to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic to save Haitian children from the hands of human trafficking groups, a plan that pre-dated the earthquake, Ham said.

“This has been a dream of hers for quite some time,” Ham said. “Now it looks like her group was arrested for exactly the crime she wants to help combat.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Adriana Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro at [email protected]
Last Updated: January 31, 2010 14:10 EST