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A group
of a dozen American nationals, detained in Port-au-Prince after having
tried, apparently without authorization, to take thirty children out of
Haiti were not "helping the children," stated today 'hui their manager,
Laura Silsby, she also owned.
"We have come only to help
children. We had good intentions," she told the police where the group
of Americans had been held since Saturday.
"We wanted to help those who
lost relatives during the earthquake or were abandoned," she added.
She could not give more
details on the procedure that awaited them and they should be presented
to a judge Monday.
These American citizens are
detained for "alleged violation of Haitian laws on immigration, after
being intercepted by a policeman suspiciously near the border with the
Dominican Republic while transporting 33 children from 2 months to 12 or
14 years a bus.
