Haiti: Lesser Charge For Missionary
A Haitian judge said Tuesday that he dropped kidnapping charges against Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries because the children they were trying to take out of Haiti were given over freely by their parents. The judge, Bernard St.-Vil, said Ms. Silsby would be tried on a lesser charge of arranging illegal travel because she knew she had no right to take the 33 children out of Haiti. He also said that Ms. Silsby deceived the other missionaries by telling them she had the proper documents to take the children to the Dominican Republic.
