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Haiti Frees US Missionary; Leader Still Held
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (March 8) -- One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody. Charisa Coulter, 24, was taken from her jail cell to the airport by U.S. Embassy staff more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the earthquake. Coulter, wearing a red tank top and sunglasses, declined comment as she quickly got into an SUV that took her to the Haitian airport, where she caught a flight back to the United ...
Report: Haitian Judge to Release US Missionaries
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 10) – The 10 American missionaries jailed in Port-au-Prince on charges of trying to kidnap 33 Haitian children may soon be released. Reuters is reporting that while no final decision has been made, the investigating judge in the matter, Bernard Sainvil, is close to deciding to free the Baptist group as soon as Thursday. "The order will be to release them," a source told Reuters. "One thing an investigating judge seeks in a criminal investigation is criminal intentions on the part of the people involved, and there is nothing that shows that criminal intention on the part of the ...
U.S. Baptist Group in Haiti Charged With Child Abductions
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTen Americans who tried to take 33 children out of Haiti last week without proper documentation were charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy, the New York Times reports. The group, made up mostly of members of a Baptist congregation in Idaho, said they were transporting the children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. They continue to be held while an investigation judge completes a review -- expected to last three months -- of the case and determines whether to pursue further legal action. The Americans admitted to taking the children without the government's approval, ...
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