Child-theft fears rise in Haiti

Author: Nando

Feb 1

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.

Prime Minister Max Bellerive told the Associated Press on Sunday he was outraged by the group’s ”illegal trafficking of children” in a country long afflicted by the scourge and by foreign meddling.

But the hard reality on the ground in this desperately poor country — especially after the catastrophic Jan. 12 quake — is that some parents openly attest to their willingness to part with their children if it will mean a Read the rest of this entry

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    • 7.0 Quake Hits Haiti

    Author: Nando

    Jan 12

    (CNN) — A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.

    Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect “serious loss of life,” department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington.

    “The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best,” the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.

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