Ten Americans Accused of Child Trafficking in Haiti

Haiti government charges 10 American Baptists with attempting to traffic 33 Haiti children out of the country.
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Ten Americans Accused of Child Trafficking in Haiti
Two of the 33 Haitian children, a group of 10 Americans allegedly attempted to take across the border, sit at the SOS Children's Village in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti on Jan. 31. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
1/31/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015

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Two of the 33 Haitian children, a group of 10 Americans allegedly attempted to take across the border, sit at the SOS Children's Village in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti on Jan. 31. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
The Haiti government has charged 10 American Baptists with attempting to traffic 33 Haiti children out of the country.

The group was arrested at the Dominican border on Friday night when failing to present official documentation for the children ranging in age from seven months old to 12 years old.

The group of five men and five women, most of them connected to an Idaho Baptist church, said that they tried to take the children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

“Our team was falsely arrested today,” read a statement on the Web site of the Central Valley Baptist Church. As it is not clear if the children are indeed orphans, their families are now being sought.