Haiti’s High Court sentenced American missionary

Haiti’s High Court has convicted an American missionary of trying to take 33 children out of the country to the Dominican Republic following the January 12 earthquake.



Forty- year- old Laura Silsby was convicted of arranging illegal travel under a 1980 statute restricting movement out of Haiti.



However the judge immediately sentenced the missionary to time already served in jail.



Prosecutor Jean-Serge Joseph said she was convicted and sentenced to the three months and eight days she spent behind bars.



She had been in custody since January 29 and was originally charged with kidnapping and criminal association.