This story has always made little sense to me from the start. I don’t have enough info to come to a conclusion about motivation, but when a group has paperwork from the parents allowing the children to be taken to wherever they were being taken, to get them out of that hell on earth and then they try to smear the missionaries there is something wrong.
They shouldn’t be taking kids who are not orphans. What’s up with just getting a busload of kids to take them where? To start an orphanage for kids who aren’t orphaned? So you get charity bucks and fed dollars for an orphanage for these poor Haitian kids who are not really orphans? She sounds like a con artist to me.
If she can’t pay her own mortgage, can’t run a small business and can’t pay employees properly, could she master-mind a massive international kidnapping plot??
Not that hard to explain: Haiti is one of the most corrupt governments on earth. These people are hostages being held for ransom. No surprises there, extortion is commonplace in third-world hell-holes like this. How else do you explain the poverty?
What I can't believe is how the media assumes takes the side of the tin-hats against Americans who risked their lives and spent their own money to try to help those people. Yes, the first reply is correct. I just want to reinforce the point that the evil shown there by taking these missionaries hostage is magnified here by our own media.
They didn't have anything of the sort.
I can't in good conscience donate anymore until they are home....
and this is NOT the worse that is going on in Haiti....there are murders and rape, and assualt and robbery ...yet protecting children gets them hauled into court....
"According to SOS co-workers in Santo, the children were distressed, hungry and thirsty."
""But I am not an orphan", told an eight-year-old girl. She thought that her mother has arranged short holidays for her. Some of these children obviously still have parents who assumedly were persuaded to hand over their children under false pretenses."