US missionaries in Haiti charged with child abduction
Haitian officials has charged 10 US missionaries with child abduction and criminal conspiracy for allegedly trying to smuggle 33 children out of the country.
Haitian officials said their cases would now be sent to an investigating judge who would decide how to proceed.
If found convicted or guilty they face lengthy jail terms, says the BBC' spkesman in Haiti's quake-hit capital city.
When they were stopped on the border last Friday, they said they were taking the children to a Dominican Republic orphanage.
But it has came to know that some of the youngsters had parents who were alive.
After the hearing the 10 missionaries were taken back to the jail where they have been kept since Friday.
Amid chaotic scenes, the group was bundled into a van outside the court.
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