Haiti PM criticises alleged child traffickers
Published:Tuesday | February 2, 2010 | 8:56 AM
Haiti\'s prime minister has criticised 10 US missionaries who were arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-hit country.
Jean-Max Bellerive told the Associated Press that the missionaries knew that what they were doing was wrong.
He said some of the children had parents who were alive, and that the government was trying to locate them.
A Haitian court was expected to decide yesterday whether the Americans had a case to answer, but the matter was postponed for 24 hours because of a lack of interpreters for the Americans.
The 10 have been held since Friday when they tried to enter the Dominican Republic with the children.
They insist that the children have no living parents and were being taken to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.