Its no secret Haiti's Cruel Gov't has a notorious history of Corruption.
This Corruption includes stealing Foreign Aid to live like Royalty, keeping Haitian Citizens in extreme Poverty (Children too) and allowing Child Trafficking/ Sex Slavery to occur.
Thousands of Impoverished Haitian Parents voluntarily hand their Children over to Orphanages each year because they can't afford to raise them.
The Haitian Gov't than keeps those Children in its Orphanages as a means of bringing in even more International/ Foreign Aid and for Human Trafficking/ Sex Slavery purposes.
Why don't Haitian citizens use Birth Control or practice Safe Sex you ask?
If the Haitian Gov't doesn't allow Birth Control to be distributed or Sex Education to be taught, how do you expect its citizens to practice Safe Sex?
If you do your research many of Haiti's Orphanages even those run by U.S. Citizens, are nothing more than Money Laundering Schemes which use Poor, Black Children to procure millions of dollars.
However that money is NOT used to care for the Children.
Sort of like how many State Governors in the U.S. use Black Foster Care Children to obtain Federal dollars (North Carolina) of which is mostly wasted versus being spent on the Children.
If you think I'm lying take a visit to Haiti to see with your own eyes or better yet since most of Haiti's structures were recently destroyed in the Earthquake, just do your own research.
You'll see.
Why do you think Haiti's Gov't Leaders consistently hinders the Adoption Process?
Now do you understand why the Haitian Gov't and many U.S. Citizens who operate Orphanages are fighting so hard to keep those Children in Haiti?
The Haitian Gov't plans to continue this Child/Human Trafficking Money Laundering Scheme by falsely accusing innocent U.S. Missionaries or other Americans with sincere motives, of stealing children for illegal purposes.
I along with millions of other Americans don't believe the 10 U.S. citizens from an Idaho Church and currently jailed in Haiti are guilty of Child/ Human Trafficking.
These false accusations are nothing more than a ploy to divert the U.S. State Dept from discovering Haiti's illegal activities as it relates to Child/ Human Trafficking and Misuse of International Aid (Corruption).
Every Haitian Orphanage run by Haitian Gov't Officials or Americans isn't a Child Trafficking Scheme, however most of them are.
I suggest the Obama Administration not assist Haiti in these corrupt Schemes.
Instead continue to allow Haitian Orphans to be legally adopted by U.S. Citizens.
I also suggest concerned citizens who love Children discontinue their Financial Support of Haitian Orphanages even those owned by Americans, until they find out how their money is really being used.
That may be the only way to rescue thousands of Haitian Children from Child Slavery and lifelong Poverty.
Please contact the White House, Congressional Members and U.S. State Dept officials to protest or express your concerns about this Corruption as it relates to Haiti's Forgotten Children and............
to demand release of the 10 U.S. Missionaries falsely accused by Haitian Gov't leaders of Human Trafficking.
Jesus loves the little Children, all the children of the world.
Red, Yellow, Black & White they are precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the little Children of the world.
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10 Jailed Americans Await Fate In Haiti
Ten Americans jailed amid allegations they were trafficking Haitian children are expected to meet a judge here again on Tuesday, a day after Haiti's prime minister said the missionaries knew that "what they were doing was wrong."
Prime Minister Max Bellerive also told The Associated Press that his country is open to having the Americans face prosecution in the United States, since most government buildings — including Haiti's courts — were crippled by the monster earthquake.
"It is clear now that they were trying to cross the border without papers. It is clear now that some of the children have live parents," Bellerive said. "And it is clear now that they knew what they were doing was wrong."
If they were acting in good faith — as the Americans claim — "perhaps the courts will try to be more lenient with them," he said.
U.S. Embassy officials would not say whether Washington would accept hosting judicial proceedings for the Americans, who are mostly from Idaho. For now, the case remains firmly in Haitian hands, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington.
"Once we know all the facts, we will determine what the appropriate course is, but the judgment is really up to the Haitian government," he said.
Haitian officials insist some prosecution is needed to help deter child trafficking, which many fear will flourish in the chaos caused by the devastating Jan. 12 quake. The government and aid groups are still struggling to get food, water, shelter and basic health care to hundreds of thousands of survivors, and many parents are desperate to get help for their children.
U.S. diplomats have had "unlimited" access to the 10 detainees, and will monitor any court proceedings, Crowley said. They have not yet been charged.
Nine of the 10 Americans met with a Haitian judge on Monday but because of uncertainty in the quality of translation, another interpreter "more acceptable to both sides" was being sought for a meeting on Tuesday.
Humanitarian Aim?
Members of the church group insisted they were only trying to save abandoned children — but few appear to have had any significant experience with Haiti, international charity work or international adoption regulations.
Pastor Clint Henry told the TODAY show on Tuesday that the church members were doing what they thought was right and what "they thought they had permission for."
Since their arrest Friday near the border, the church group has been held inside two small concrete rooms in the same judicial police headquarters building where ministers have makeshift offices and give disaster response briefings.
"There is no air conditioning, no electricity. It is very disturbing," Attorney Jorge Puello told the AP by phone from the Dominican Republic, where the Baptists hoped to shelter the children in a rented beach hotel.
One of the Americans, Charisa Coulter of Boise, Idaho, was treated Monday at a field hospital for either dehydration or the flu. Looking pale as she lay on a green Army cot, the 24-year-old Coulter, was being guarded by two Haitian police officers.
"They're treating me pretty good," she said. "I'm not concerned. I'm pretty confident that it will all work out."
Investigators have been trying to determine how the Americans got the children, and whether any of the traffickers that have plagued the impoverished country were involved. Their detained spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, said they were "just trying to do the right thing," but she conceded she had not obtained the required passports, birth certificates and adoption certificates for them — a near impossible challenge in the post-quake mayhem.
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"I am not an orphan"
The 33 kids, ranging in age from 2 months to 12 years, arrived with their names written in tape on their shirts at a children's home where some told aid workers they have surviving parents. Haitian officials said they were trying to reunite them.
"One (9-year-old) girl was crying, and saying, 'I am not an orphan. I still have my parents.' And she thought she was going on a summer camp or a boarding school or something like that," said George Willeit, a spokesman for the SOS Children's Village.
The prime minister said some of those parents may have knowingly given their kids to the Americans in hopes they would reach the United States — a not uncommon wish for poor families in a country that already had an estimated 380,000 orphans before the quake.
Haiti's overwhelmed government has halted all adoptions unless they were in motion before the earthquake amid fears that parentless or lost children are more vulnerable than ever to being seized and sold. Sex trafficking has been rampant in Haiti. Bellerive's personal authorization is now required for the departure of any child.
The arrested Americans' churches are part of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, which has extensive humanitarian programs worldwide, but they decided to mount their own "rescue mission" following the earthquake.
For Haitian parents, Giving Kids To U.S. Group Backfires Painfully
Lely Laurentus thought he was doing the right thing when he handed his two young children over to an American woman who promised to take them to a better place.
Laura Silsby, a member of Idaho-based New Life Children's Refuge, had given him a flyer from her charity saying that it wanted to help "children who have lost their mother and father in the earthquake or have no one to love and care for them."
She promised schooling, soccer fields and even a swimming pool. She told Laurentus that she had government permission to carry out her plan, he said.
Laurentus loved his girls. They were everything to him, he said. But he also thought of his own life -- he dropped out of school at 15 and worked two jobs to put food on the table.
In the devastating January 12 earthquake, he lost the meager home he had sitting on a hillside in Calebasse.
"I can't stand that they were suffering here," Laurentus said. "I had confidence in the Americans. I trusted them."
So Thursday night, when Silsby came with a bus, he placed his girls, Soraya, 4, and Leila, 5, on two seats towards the front. He didn't pack any of their things, he said. Not even their teddy bear. The American woman had bags filled with clothes, toys and snacks.
"Will you remember me?" he asked the young girls, who could not, by his own admission, comprehend what was happening. Then he watched them drive off, with 18 other children from the village.
But the girls never made it out of Haiti.
Silsby and nine other American Baptist missionaries from Idaho, Kansas and Texas were arrested at the border with the Dominican Republic on Friday. They were detained on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children -- the 20 from Calebasse and 13 others -- out of the country.
They are being held in a jail in Port-au-Prince. Members of the group described conditions to CNN as sparse, but they said they are getting sufficient amounts of food and water.
P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the State Department, said Monday that U.S. officials have been given unlimited consular access to the Americans and that U.S. and Haitian authorities are "working to try to ascertain what happened (and) the motive behind these people.
"Clearly there are questions about procedure as to whether they had the appropriate paperwork to move the children," he said.
Crowley said the group was scheduled to appear before a Haitian judge Monday afternoon, but that hearing apparently didn't happen.
A hearing for the group will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to Haitian Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue, who said the group will be provided with a professional interpreter.
The missionaries say they were just trying to help the children leave tragedy behind and start life anew.
"We believe we've been charged very falsely with trafficking, which is the furthest possible extreme," said Silsby, whose group describes itself as a Christian ministry dedicated to rescuing orphaned, abandoned or impoverished Haitian and Dominican children. "We literally gave up everything and used up our own income to help these children and by no means (are we) part of that horrendous practice."
Clint Henry is senior pastor at Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho, a church attended by many of the group's members. He remade that point, saying the group's intentions were "upright and pure."
"The intention was simply to go down and try to be an aid in ministering to children that had been orphaned in the quake," Henry said. "It was our intention to be part of a new orphanage. The decision was made that we could house those children in the temporary sites."
But the incident has focused the spotlight on the issue of orphans in Haiti, where aid groups say the quake left tens of thousands of children without anyone to care for them.
The government has accused the American missionaries of kidnapping and is investigating the incident before releasing the children back to their families.
"The children certainly were not fully willing to go, because in some cases, from what I heard, they were asking for their parents, they wanted to return to their parents," Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN.
Haiti's government requires documentation stating approval for children to exit the country. Silsby acknowledged she had none.
"They really didn't have any paperwork and this is probably a misunderstanding on my part, but I did not really know they would be required," she said.
Church pastor Drew Ham said "our understanding is, they were given some directives, some instructions on the paperwork they needed, and they did exactly what they were told to do. So upon the arrival at the border, 'Sorry, you're missing a piece,' OK, let's go fix that problem' ... We don't know of any mistakes that were made."
On Monday, Information Minister Lassegue appealed to Haitians to not give up their children to strangers.
"We're talking about people who are coming to countries in distress, after a hurricane, after a tsunami, after an earthquake," she said. "You will never see the children again."
The United States has already expressed concern over the fate of vulnerable orphans and the potential for child trafficking.
Laurentus said he first heard of Silsby through another Calebasse resident, Isaac Adrien, who was trying to get a job at a Port-au-Prince Christian school.
Adrien said he met Silsby at the school. She asked him whether he knew of people who had suffered in the quake and needed help. Adrien thought of his own community.
On Thursday, Adrien took her up on an hour-plus drive up to Calebasse, where clouds touch land and people live a simple farming life.
"All the schools are closed here," Adrien said. "I thought it would be a good idea to send the children away."
Silsby assured the residents of Calebasse that she would stay in touch with them, Laurentus said. And that they would be able to see the children whenever they wanted.
Silsby's group told CNN they were going to house the children in a converted hotel in the Dominican Republic.
But without proper documentation, Silsby and the other missionaries were turned away by Haitian police at the border.
"They wouldn't listen to her," Adrien said about Silsby. "She was crying."
Adrien said the 33 children were forced to sleep outside the police station Friday night before Haitian authorities placed them in the care of SOS Children's Villages in Port-au-Prince.
Laurentus said he bore no ill-will toward the Americans; that he still trusted them. But he wants his girls back home.
As did Adrienne Paulime, who put her 10-year-old daughter, Benatide, on the bus Thursday.
"We gave her to the Americans so she could have a better life," said Paulime, wiping her eyes dry.
Benatide's brother, Alain Paulime, said he received a phone call Friday from a woman at SOS orphanage. She said his kid sister was crying.
"Can you come pick me up?" Benatide asked Alain.
Paulime said he was anxious to let the orphanage know that Benatide did not belong there. She had a family.
Monday, Alain Paulime and his sister Carline Paulime joined Laurentus in the long trek down the mountain into the crowded capital.
"I want them back home," Laurentus said.
But in the end, they were forced to leave empty-handed, without even seeing them. The children were traumatized, said Georg Willeit, head of SOS Children's Villages.
"The emotional security of the kids is very unstable at the moment," he said.
Willeit told "Anderson Cooper 360" that at least 20 children are not orphaned. They are receiving "care and attention" at his facility, he said.
Many of them did not think they would ever see their parents again. He said he would not allow a visit now for fear of raising the children's expectations.
They would have to wait to go home, until the investigation is over.
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