Judge recommends missionaries freed
Published:Thursday | February 11, 2010 | 5:55 PM
A judge has recommended that 10 US missionaries detained in Haiti for alleged child smuggling be freed, while the case is investigated.
The five men and five women, most of them from Idaho, have been charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy.
They have denied allegations that they tried to smuggle 33 children across the border to the Dominican Republic.
The group said they were taking the children to an orphanage.
It has since emerged that some of the youngsters\' parents are still alive, and many came from the same village.
The children, who are from aged two to 12, are now in the care of the Austrian-run SOS Children\'s Village in Port-au-Prince.