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Updated at: 0100 PST, Friday, February 05, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Ten American Christians were Thursday charged in quake-hit Haiti with child abduction and criminal conspiracy, but should not be sent for trial in the United States, officials said.
"It is Haitian law that has been violated," Justice Minister Paul Denis told media. "It is up to the Haitian authorities to hear and judge the case. I don't see any reason why they should be tried in the United States."
The group of five men and five women from an Idaho-based charity were detained on Friday after trying to drive a bus-load of 33 children over the border into the Dominican Republic.
They were formally charged with "kidnapping minors and criminal association" on Thursday according to their lawyer Edwin Coq.
The group could now face nine years in prison on child kidnapping charges and further jail time for conspiracy.
The group has denied any ill intentions, saying they merely trying to help children orphaned and abandoned by the January 12 quake.
But amid continued chaos in the Haitian capital the head of Port-au-Prince lawyers' association, Gervais Charles, said any trial would be impossible in the country any time soon.
"It is absolutely impossible to carry out the trial for the Americans in Haiti right now. Judicial proceedings have not officially restarted in Port-au-Prince," he said.
Earlier government prosecutor Mazan Fortil said it was not yet clear if the 10 could be tried in the Haiti.
Source: 10 US men charged with kidnapping Haiti children
Possibly another attempt of baptising Haitians?
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Ten American Christians were Thursday charged in quake-hit Haiti with child abduction and criminal conspiracy, but should not be sent for trial in the United States, officials said.
"It is Haitian law that has been violated," Justice Minister Paul Denis told media. "It is up to the Haitian authorities to hear and judge the case. I don't see any reason why they should be tried in the United States."
The group of five men and five women from an Idaho-based charity were detained on Friday after trying to drive a bus-load of 33 children over the border into the Dominican Republic.
They were formally charged with "kidnapping minors and criminal association" on Thursday according to their lawyer Edwin Coq.
The group could now face nine years in prison on child kidnapping charges and further jail time for conspiracy.
The group has denied any ill intentions, saying they merely trying to help children orphaned and abandoned by the January 12 quake.
But amid continued chaos in the Haitian capital the head of Port-au-Prince lawyers' association, Gervais Charles, said any trial would be impossible in the country any time soon.
"It is absolutely impossible to carry out the trial for the Americans in Haiti right now. Judicial proceedings have not officially restarted in Port-au-Prince," he said.
Earlier government prosecutor Mazan Fortil said it was not yet clear if the 10 could be tried in the Haiti.
Source: 10 US men charged with kidnapping Haiti children
Possibly another attempt of baptising Haitians?
