US group face Haiti charges

TEN members of a US missionary group who said they were trying to rescue 33 child victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association yesterday, their lawyer said.

Edwin Coq said after a court hearing that a judge found sufficient evidence to charge the Americans, who were arrested last Friday at Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic.

Group leader Laura Silsby has said they were trying to take orphans and abandoned children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.