Ten Americans arrested in Haiti last week as they tried to
take 33 Haitian children to an orphanage across the border in
the Dominican Republic were charged on Thursday with
abduction and criminal association, according to prosecutors.
The charges, which carry prison terms of up to 15 years, were
announced after a closed court hearing in which prosecutors
questioned the Americans, most of them members of a Baptist
congregation from Idaho. The case has become a flash point
for Haiti's fears of foreign encroachment in the aftermath of
the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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