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A Mother and Child, Divided After Earthquake, Reunite
Haiti—The baby, his left leg amputated, arrived by helicopter at a hospital in northern Haiti early this month with a wristband that simply said “Boy.” The staff there called him “Jean Pierre.” On Thursday, he became Kervins Noel again, after he was flown back here by the International Committee of the [...]
12 Haitians love cold as they await adoption in Emsworth
Just last week, efforts by the McMutrie sisters to bring a second group of 12 children to the U.S. ended in failure. And the Haitian government, which recently arrested 10 Baptist missionaries for trying to bring 33 undocumented children into the Dominican Republic, has clamped down on out-of-country adoptions.
The fear of child trafficking is palpable [...]
Update on the Departure of Orphans from Haiti as beneficiaries of Humanitarian Parole
From U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
Dear Adoption Service Providers:
This message is being sent to you to notify you of a previous correspondence USCIS had with prospective adoptive parents of Haitian orphans who are beneficiaries of the Department of Homeland Security’s special humanitarian parole program. The message follows below.
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Attorney: 10 US Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping
From the Associated Press:
Ten members of a U.S. missionary group who said they were trying to rescue 33 child victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association on Thursday, their lawyer said.
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Coq said that under Haiti’s legal system, there won’t be an open trial, but a judge will consider the [...]
Baptist group warned away from plans to sneak children out of Haiti, called “unconscionable”
From the Wall Street Journal:
But more reports surfaced Wednesday that the group was warned away from its plan. Carlos Castillo, the Dominican Republic’s consul general in Port-au-Prince, said in an interview that he met with the group’s leader, Laura Silsby, on Friday at the consulate in the Haitian capital and told her she lacked the [...]
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