The Americans tried to kidnap the children of Haiti –
January 31, 2010 – 11:00 pm
In Haiti, for attempted trafficking of 31 children arrested 10 U.S. citizens, reported Al-Jazeera.
Citizens of the United States – five men and five women, and two Haitian were detained while attempting to cross the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic with a group of children during the night of Friday, January 29, said the head of the Haitian Ministry of Social Relations Yves Crystallin (Yves Christallin).
U.S. citizens have not been carrying any documents confirming the adoption of children or their parents’ permission for the export of minors. “This is not an adoption, and kidnapping,” – said Crystallin. The names of the detained Americans, the Haitian authorities have not called, passes lenta.ru.
The Associated Press managed to contact relatives of two women detained in Haiti. Sean Lenkford (Sean Lankford) of Idaho told the news agency that his wife and daughter were members of Christian charity. Americans, he said, allegedly drove the children to the shelter, organized them in a hotel in the Dominican Republic. According Lenkforda, team members were confident that all documents for the export of children decorated correctly.
A few days before the detention of Americans head of the government of Haiti, Jean-Max Bellerive (Jean-Max Bellerive) said that the devastating earthquake that left tens of thousands of orphaned children, provoked a sharp increase in illegal exports of Haitian children abroad. Bellerive said that children are being trafficked out of the country including in order to become organ donors. According to UNICEF, only in the Dominican Republic from Haiti after the earthquake are taken up to 2 thousand children every day.
As a result of the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, were killed, according to official data, not less than 170 thousand people. About 2 million people homeless.
