Haitian 'orphans' taken by missionaries reunited with parents

[Ian David]

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Some of the 33 children that a group of American Baptists tried to take out of Haiti without papers were reunited on Tuesday with their parents.

The parents now are coming to the village to reclaim their children. We already hear that many are saying that we (they) have parents," " said Heather Paul, the chief executive of the US branch of SOS Children's Villages International, an Austrian charity which runs a Port-au-Prince orphanage where the children are staying.

The 10 Americans, most of them members of two Baptist churches in Idaho, were arrested while trying to take the children into the Dominican Republic. They are still being questioned by the Haitian authorities.

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Guetchine Ordalus, a member of the Haiti Bar Association, voiced his anger at the Americans' behaviour. "Our country has been destroyed by an earthquake, and is a nation known for its economic and social problems.

"But that doesn't mean that foreigners can come here and take children away so easily," he said.





Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7141791/Haitian-orphans-taken-by-missionaries-reunited-with-parents.html

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[brooklynite]

1. Wouldn't they have been reunited in Heaven 100 years from now?

[Berry Cool]

2. I bet these parents and kids are as happy as the FLDS moms and kids were to be reunited.

No one should be able to take anyone's kids away without due process.

[REP]

3. Great news!