The Truth Behind 10 Americans Jailed in Haiti for Child Trafficking

According to Reuters, Judge Ezaie Pierre-Louis will hear the other five missionaries tomorrow, Wednesday, February 3.

"I heard five of them. Then I will hear the other five tomorrow," Judge Pierre-Louis said. "After the hearing tomorrow, I will make a report to the prosecutor, then he will decide what he does next."

Reuters added that the case could be diplomatically sensitive at a time when the United States is spearheading a huge relief effort to help hundreds of thousands of Haitian quake victims, and as U.S. aid groups pour millions of dollars of donations into Haiti.

On numerous news interviews, most parents of the 33 children admitted they willingly sent their kids to the American missionaries for adoption considering the bright future awaits their children in the hands of American parents instead of keeping them in their own home, where hunger and poverty are all that await them.

But, Haitian authorities have repeatedly expressed concerns that child traffickers on children amidst the chaos that followed the earthquake that killed more than 200,000 of its people.

This is really diplomatically sensitive, but the burden should be felt more by the Haitian authorities, why?

Simply because, they spoke to the parents and all of them admitted that they did it willingly, some even claimed to CNN that they handed their kids to the same bus that was apprehended at the boarder of Haiti and Dominican Republic. The Haitian authorities know the truth.

What alarmed today was the fact that those five fellows who appeared before Judge Pierre-Louis were not represented by any lawyer today, but why? What's the American government doing?

Another thing is that I don't think it's enough for Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive just to "acknowledged" the possibility that 10 American missionaries were misguided and acted in good faith. Possibly? They really did acted on good faith. He accused them first of being "kidnappers," doesn't he think he owes them an apology?

They were able to interview the parents and the parents admitted doing it willingly. And, the rest of the kids are orphans. The only lapse that the missionaries failed to do was to carry proper documentation; they did failed to have everything that they've agreed with the parents be written in black and white.

But, that can be corrected. They can pay due penalties too if they have to. But, please, too prosecute and persecute those fellows as cold-hearted criminals, is too much! And, the American government should also do something because they do have responsibilities to all the accused.

And can't Haiti at least consider the efforts that hundreds of thousands of Americans have contributed from day 1 of the quake chaos? What happened now to U.S. and Haiti's diplomatic relation?

Whatever the answers will be, I just hope that whatever is due will be given to the 10 American Christian missionaries now behind bars in Haiti and that the American government will extend to these fellows what they are entitled to, and that's justice!