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BBC News - US missionaries in Haiti charged with child abduction

Haiti has charged 10 US missionaries with child abduction and criminal conspiracy for allegedly trying to smuggle children out of the country.

If convicted they face lengthy jail terms, says the BBC's Paul Adams at the court hearing in Haiti's quake-hit capital, Port-au-Prince.

When stopped on the border last Friday, they said they were taking the children to a Dominican Republic orphanage.

But it has emerged some of the 33 youngsters had parents who were alive.



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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 03:07:25 PM EST
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It is entirely possible they had the best of intentions, but they were criminally naive. what on earth led them to believe they could or should do such a thing ?

they will be hung out to dry as a warning to others. Not that it would matter, those with bad intent would never do something so stupid.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 05:42:21 PM EST
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what on earth led them to believe they could or should do such a thing ?

Baptists from the USA. They were probably wacko proselytizing fundies, and thought Gawd approves.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 06:25:37 AM EST
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Absolutely. "These children are so in need of God's love", said their spokeslady on TV.

Which God, of course, needed the agency of these fundies to be able to lavish. Having just slipped up in the expression of His love by putting the kids through a 200K-death earthquake.

God is such a wanker.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 06:31:50 AM EST
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Have just had  a book by one of my old professors turn up in the post entitled "Forgivness, how religion endangers morality" I'm sure he'd have had something to say on the matter.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 06:39:13 AM EST
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