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Attorney: 10 US Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping

February 4, 2010

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 evidence and could render a verdict in about three months.

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Coq said that nine of the 10 knew nothing about the alleged scheme, or that paperwork for the children was not in order.
“I’m going to do everything I can to get the nine out,” Coq said. That would still leave mission leader Laura Silsby facing charges.

(source: The Associated Press)