Baptists In Haiti Could Face U.S. Kidnapping Charges



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Baptists In Haiti Could Face U.S. Kidnapping Charges
by The Associated Press

AP - February 1, 2010

Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission "knew what they were doing was wrong."

Prime Minister Max Bellerive said his country is open to having the Americans go before courts in the United States because his own nation's judicial system was devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The aborted Baptist "rescue mission" has become a distraction for a crippled government trying to provide basic life support to millions of earthquake survivors [more]