From Port-Au-Prince:
The 10 Americans detained in Port-au-Prince on child trafficking charges are pleading for the United States government to do more on their behalf and for the news media to focus on them less.
“Help us,” one of the detainees, Carla Thompson, said Monday as she lay on a bed in a scorching jail cell about 8 feet by 5 feet, her ankles bandaged from infected mosquito bites. “That’s the message I would give to Mr. Obama and the State Department. Start helping us.”
Sitting on a dirty concrete floor in the cell, another detainee, Corinna Lankford, nodded in agreement, a frustrated look on her face.
“I have faith in God,” Ms. Lankford said. “But maybe the U.S. government could help a little more, too.”
“No one is giving us any kind of information about what is going on,” she added.
Perhaps they could enlist the help of a local imam (do they have those in Haiti?), convert to Islam and I'm imagining Obama would be sending in the Marines in no time...
... perhaps.
Those children molesters should rot in jail.
Posted by: decembre | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 at 07:51 PM
A balanced view of this situation can be found here:
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/commentary/11625951/
Posted by: tnxplant | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 07:47 AM
Those evil Baptists!
First, they obtain parental consent to take these children to safety and to where they can be fed and clothed and seen to medically.
Then they assure the parents that they can visit the kids and have them returned to the parents when conditions are better.
Such horror!
Posted by: Mommynator | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM
I'd love to give them the benefit of the doubt but there's something about this all that just doesn't seem right...probably why they’re in jail in the first place.
Posted by: tim aka The Godless Heathen | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM
tim, please read the following article and also pay attention to the comments after.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/10/state-department-abandons-arre
Posted by: Mommynator | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Perhaps the state dept could send a corpseman to see to her infected bites.
Posted by: lazzers | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 05:15 PM
I read the link from M'ator, still sounds like these people are being held for trial. I didn't see any evidence for or against the legitimacy of their claims. Someone says there's no paperwork, someone says there's perfect paperwork. Que?
Posted by: Frank | Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 06:36 PM