The Baptist missionaries who went down to Haiti after the earthquake were charged with kidnapping and criminal association last week. They attempted to take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic without the proper documentation. According to them, they were merely trying to help. And now some of the parents’ of the children claim that they willingly gave their children to the missionaries. If that is the case, they cannot be charged with trafficking according to reports. Something about this does not sit right with me. I understand that they cannot be charged with trafficking if the parents willfully gave them their children, but who in their right mind thinks they can just go into a country, ask people to hand over their kids and then attempt to take said children into another country? Who does that?
Of course, after a natural disaster everyone with a heart wants to help- some send money, some donate clothes, some fly down with a group to help out, which is my point. If they wanted to help Haitian children, why did they not sign on to help with an established organization whose job it was to help children in Haiti? Basically, as I see it, this missionary group just took advantage of the situation and the parents’ desperation. I guarantee you that they would not have tried this had Haiti been a majority white country. Haiti’s primarily black, and it’s the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, so they thought that they’d only be helping by circumventing Haitian laws and “rescuing” the poor black children. RIGHT.
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