Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Idaho Baptist Adoption Suspects Planned to 'Gather' 100 Haitian Orphans, Cross Border

(ChattahBox) -- Kidnappers for Jesus? A group of Evangelical church folk from Idaho, led by personal shopper Laura Silsby, Executive Director and Founder of New Life Children Refuge, descended upon the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti last week, to snatch and grab 100 orphans off of the streets and from orphanages. The Baptist group's mission statement was to "share God's love with these precious children, helping them heal and find new life in Christ." However, they were only able to "gather" up 33, some of whom weren't even orphans. The evangelical do-gooders became alleged kidnappers and child traffickers when they loaded the Haitian "orphans" on a bus and attempted to take them across the border to the Dominican Republic to the New Life Refuge orphanage, with no documents from the Haitian government. Well, the so-called orphanage turns out to be a 45-room hotel at Cabarete, a beach resort in the Dominican Republic that the group was renting.

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See also:

Haiti: U.S. Baptists Knew They Were Wrong

Baptists Offered Kids Pool, Tennis Courts