What were a bunch of twentysomething single white females doing in Port-Au-Prince by themselves?
At my company we send people through the Caribbean all the time. Rule No. 1: no one goes through Haiti, specifically Port-Au-Prince. Even the airport is considered unacceptably dangerous for a flight stop, as you can be accosted in the transit hall.
Maybe people weren't expecting an earthquake, but that's just one of many unacceptable hazards in that insane island.
Ummm.. how about you read the article:
Gengel said the State Department informed him yesterday that 40 American citizens remained trapped in the rubble of Hotel Montana in Port-Au-Prince, where his daughter was staying with 11 classmates and two professors from Lynn University in Florida. They had traveled to Haiti to feed the poor with the program Journey for Hope-Haiti.
Eight of those students have been rescued. Britney Gengel, three classmates, and the two professors are still missing.
...and their mission is quite a ways from Port au Prince.
‘What were a bunch of twentysomething single white females doing in Port-Au-Prince by themselves?”
They weren’t ‘by themselves’ many of them were there as part of various mission or aid activities.
They weren’t by themselves. They were with faculty advisors on a student trip. Here’s a log from the university of the events after the earthquake. There were evidently search and rescue missions going on at the hotel.
They weren’t there by themselves. It was a university-sponsored service trip to Haiti. It was a group of students along with several faculty advisors.
What sane parent lets their 19-23 year old daughter go to the Western Hemisphere's Porta Potty? Even if there had not been an earthquake it is insanity to send your children to an HIV petri dish full of criminals.
They blame the Military for not caring. They failed to care enough long before the earthquake.