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Case Stokes Haiti’s Fear for Children, and Itself

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Case Stokes Haiti’s Fear for Children, and Itself Case Stokes Haiti’s Fear for Children, and Itself “God wanted us to come here to help *****ren, we are convinced of thataromatic,” Laura Silsby, one of 10 Americans accused of trafficking Haitian *****ren, said Monday through the bars of a jail cell here. “Our hearts were in the right place.”

Whatever their intentions, the Americans who were detained #x late Friday at the Dominican border with 33 *****ren struck a deep emotional chord in this earthquake-ravaged country.

Even as Haiti’s crippled government asserted itself in the name of defending the nation’s *****ren, officials made it clear that more was at stake. In the wake of the worst natural disaster in Haiti’s history, the authorities have opened the country to a flood of international assistance, some of it coming uncomfortably close to infringing on national sovereignty.

The 10 Americans, the authorities said, had crossed the line.

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive angrily denounced them as “kidnappers” who “knew aromaticwhat they were doing was wrong.” Justice Minister Paul Denis said, “We may be weakened, but without laws the Haitian state would cease to exist.”

And the chief of the National Judicial Police, Frantz Thermilus, said: “What surprises me is that these people would never do something like this in their own country. We must make clear they cannot do such things in ours.”

The Americans, most of whom are affiliated with two Baptist churches in Idaho, said they were trying to rescue orphans from the earthquake and take them to an orphanage they were setting up in the Dominican Republic. But that noble intent came under scrutiny on Monday as questions were raised about whether all of the *****ren were indeed orphans.

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