Baptists Return to Haiti Jail for Weekend

(AP)  Two U.S. missionaries are spending another weekend in a Haitian jail.

A judge had said earlier he was likely to release the women soon. But that didn't happen after a closed hearing Friday. The judge did not publicly explain the delay in releasing Idaho residents Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter.

Asked if she would be released, Coulter said, "Not today." She appeared to weep after getting into a police vehicle for the drive back to jail.

Haiti: The Road to Recovery

The two were detained Jan. 29 along with eight other Americans as they tried to leave Haiti with 33 children. Authorities held them on suspicion of kidnapping, while the missionaries said they were just trying to rescue kids they thought were orphans. The other missionaries have been freed.

[allwillsee]

Hey, can I guess the ones who are saying the missionaries are taking these kids for porn,sex or bad intentions are the same people who are visiting porn/sex websites? I'm glad you were not compassionate enough to try and help those people in need; Who know's, you could be rotting in jail over there too. Something to think about! One more thing, those 33 children are alive today because of the 10 missionaries and the attention they caused.

[toldyouso21]

nyone who goes to any country to obtain children especially a war torn or disaster ravaged country is either a fool, a pedophile or a desperate adoption seeking opportunist. The reason? Because you can never tell if the people who give up the children are lying, stealing the children of the injured, or that where the children will end up is not in some sexually or racially exploited venue.

You just can't. Any stops or checks are not there during disasters--it is a known fact that sexual predators FLOCK to places with disasters. After the Bali tsunami the Indonesian islands were saturated with KNOWN sexual predators seeking kids to either "adopt" (rape) or sell and some did end up in sexual slavery and videos.

So do gooder missionaries who travel from America and are willing to try to sneak kids out are just as suspect as any other group who may be there for nefarious reasons. We already know that churches have been involved in child rape/sexual exploitation and face it--no matter how desperate some of these groups are to adopt and how willing they are to take in a child of another race--they have absolutely NO RIGHT to deprive a child of either their homeland, culture or relatives until/unless all other options are exhausted--it is not about stopping Americans from doing good deeds but they either follow the rules like everyone else or face the consequences.

the baptist women : Went in with forged documents from another country and intially said the children were orphans. This was a LIE.

No one can have papers made out by someone in say Mexico and grab 33 American children to sell to an adoption agency anywhere can they? if they can't do it to us--we cannot do it to them and don't even get into the bs of what an American can provide--no American family can provide the continuity of bloodline and family ties--and no American no matter how much money can take the place of genetics and race.

Adoptions are not bad things but if a family is not willing to give up their kids within the normal government process--you certainly cannot trust people with kids to sell or give away during a disaster. Since they LIED and were willing to kidnap and use forged documents--I trust NOTHING the baptist females say and they are as guilty of human/child trafficking as anyone else.

Trafficking is not just the selling of children for sex--it is the selling of children for ANY REASON. Even if it is so some white Americans can practice their own version of Jolie and Madonna "saving/collecting/adopting" a little black baby.

And if this is not reprehensible to most people--see how you like it if Africans or others come to adopt little white orphan kids from another country and try to get them out of the country with forged documents just to "help" them. don't do to others what you would not tolerate happening to YOURSELF.

[SIKCHUTNAY]

THERE THEY SHOULD STAY FOR THEIR REMAINING WEEKENDS!!

[erich_1-2009]

No, I think not. Hypocritical freaks like that will just oppose anybody and anything having to do with religion.

It's the trained response of any secular humanist that rejects God.
They can't help it! They are just spouting out what he who controls their souls wants them to say.

[jankebenzone]

That the missionaries were all innocent is long a forgone conclusion,holding the last 2 is but an effort to extort more financial gain by the haitian law and judge.

[TVO1CITW]

It was said that these should be used as an example. You are right, the government is also using this to divert the attention from their lack of protecting the real traffiking for many years prior and also in the future. This government is corrupt and no one is saying anything.

[SIKCHUTNAY]

AND IN JAIL THEY SHOULD STAY!!

[hateisafourletterword]

You are so right. In fact I think we should throw anyone in jail who attempts to assist the Haitian's. That will teach them to volunteer and help in emergencies ever again.

Would that make you happy?

[ToolMangler1]

The more people that die in Haiti means the Haitian Government get to keep more of the aid money being sent in. If the Government were serious about helping the poor people, the Missionaries woud never have been arrested to start with.