A group of US missionaries in Haiti has been charged with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly trying to take children illegally out of the earthquake-hit country.
After announcing the charges, Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph told the ten Americans their case was being sent to an investigative judge.
‘That judge can free you but he can also continue to hold you for further proceedings,’ the deputy prosecutor told the five men and five women in a hearing.
The ten members of an Idaho-based Baptist Church were arrested last week on Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic when they tried to cross with a busload of 33 children they said were orphaned by the devastating earthquake.
They deny any wrongdoing.
