PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from this earthquake-ravaged capital.
Their lawyer, Edwin F. Coq Jr., said they had been charged with child abduction and criminal association and not the more-serious charges of kidnapping and child trafficking in connection with trying to take 33 children into the neighboring Dominican Republic. The charges could carry sentences of up to nine years and up to three years, respectively, Mr. Coq said.
For Ms. Silsby it was the latest in a series of wrong turns on a road her parents and others who know her in Idaho say was paved with the best intentions. Yet in her long-stated desire to help orphans, she has left a trail of business and personal debts, as well as unheeded warnings about the intricacies of taking children out of Haiti.
"Laura was the only one who had knowledge of what was going on," Mr. Coq said. "The rest said only that they love Haiti. That is why they came to Haiti."
Much about Ms. Silsby, who started and ran an online personal-shopping service, remains a mystery, including the current state of her business and personal finances—her house was foreclosed and she was sued by creditors—and whether she believed she was following Haitian law as she gathered children.
Personal Shopper, whose Web site personalshopper.com, promises to guide shoppers to products that fit their needs, won Ms. Silsby a 2006 award as International Businesswoman of the Year from eWomen Network, a Texas-based international businesswomen's group. By last year it also was facing suits.
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carmencita ago
Nothing to see here folks. Having Clinton Connections and her lawyer involved in a human trafficking ring means nothing. As usual we are trying to make mountain out of a mole hill. That's what I was told when I was trying to red pill someone last year. We are still trying to explain this to people. What will it take. So frustrating.
truthdemon ago
The solution which no.one here understands ..is to reduce debt ..and stop.feeding the banking system..at the same time setting urself up as creditor over the US treasury...
Then as an individual or a group...u can instruct the US to follow ur instructiins...while they r obliged to discharge ur bills and debts...from here on
Google : nexium etymology Google : what is namium .and then search for nexium ..and understand that Rome is indebted and obliged to ur instructions from berth ..and that u have a nexium contract over them when u turn them into ur debtor
DeathToMasonsASAP ago
Their is no government, it was dissolved March 9th, 1933. Yes 33. You should know this by now. We were collateralized, our metals seized, and government replaced with a corporation, USA INC. owned by the Rothschild banking cartel. You have been corporatized as well, and that is why your birth certificate is all in caps. The politicians are employees if the cartel. The Cartel taxes us, pays the politicians and gives fund the treasury to pay tax refunds. That's it, they keep the rest. Politicians don't spend more than they bring in because they are stupid, that is their job, to keep the country in debt to the cartel.
truthdemon ago
If debt is the problem...and what gives them.power.. ..then logic should convey..that reducing debt must be the solution.. ...and when one studies basics of commercial law...that is just the case ... ..so we emailed the US treasury ..and they confirmed that ..yes ..anyone on this planet can reduce their debt ...making us their true creditor with surety rights over them..
...the next would be to ask.the debt reduction department of the crown..whether they accept any countrymens currency... The crown is important since i believe they r the ones holding the lien or legal title.of our name ..whilst we keep the equity side ...as trustees ...and loan it to the war game ..ie tye templar banking system.. When we reduce debt ...we both become beneficiary of our trust..ie the NAme...created by our parents at birth ...and since we are on the peace side...the crown has no right over the legal.title...They only hold.it on the war side ...using us as surety to their war statututes.... Constitutor means someone who shifts debt into a third partybie the surety... The politicians take an oath to this insursnce policy document ..they can only apply these statutues inside the war game ... Utube : leiber code martial law