Eight in Haiti orphan case go home

EIGHT American missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti were back in the US yesterday and looking forward to homecomings, even as two others remained in a Haitian jail in an ordeal sparked by the group’s attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country.

The missionaries arrived on a US Air Force C-130 just after midnight at Miami International Airport, about 12 hours after a Haitian judge approved their release.

Silas Thompson, 19, of Twin Falls, Idaho, said it was “great” to be back on US soil. Asked to name the first thing he’ll do when he gets home, Thompson replied: “Hug my mom.”