“Parents of these Americans have not renewed their commitment to my place,” said the lawyer. “Not only  they do not pay me anything until now but they can tarnish my reputation by saying that I asked them for money to bribe the judge,” he protested.

Mr. Coq is in charge of the case of the ten Americans since they were arrested January 29 at the Dominican border with 33 children without identity papers.
They were accused Thursday of “kidnapping minors” and “conspiracy”. On Friday, Mr. Haan had filed an application for parole that the judge rejected after lengthy auditioned group.

The lawyer has told AFP that the families of Baptists from Idaho (north-western United States) had agreed to pay her $ 60,000 fee, which some now. He cited a “misunderstanding”.

Mr. Coq regretted not having received any response from families to the email on Saturday, announcing he was abandoning the case. 

“The judge did not accept the request for provisional release,” said Mr. Cock, leaving the prosecutor’s office where the ten Americans were held all day yesterday. “The judge has issued two mandates for deposits, one for the group of five men who are incarcerated in the national penitentiary, one for five women who will be held at the prison for women in Petion-Ville,” has detailed the lawyer.

Ten Baptist missionaries, who tried to illegally from Haiti exfiltrer thirty children, were charged Thursday of “abduction of minors and criminal conspiracy” and should be tried in Haiti.

The National Penitentiary is the main prison of Port-au-Prince, where much of the 4,000 inmates escaped, taking advantage of the earthquake on January 12. The hearing of inmates will continue next week, “said Mr. Cock.

Ambassador in charge of international adoption Jean-Paul Monchau is “currently in Port-au-Prince for the Haitian authorities to propose a joint mechanism, a bilateral commission, which we can address all out there, records of adoption, “said spokesman Bernard Valero at a news briefing.

This committee is a part designed to “facilitate the processing procedures for which evidence can establish the existence of a court but which can be produced following the earthquake of 12 January, according to a press Valero . And secondly, to “make recommendations for procedures in which no decision had been made Haiti before the earthquake.

The French authorities are in contact with “a little over 900 families,” French and about 950 Haitian children are “involved in adoption procedures,” said the spokesman.

The first priority is to “hasten the arrival in France of Haitian children for whom an adoption order was made by the Haitian justice before the earthquake” or “nearly 400 children,” said Valero. To date, 277 have already joined their French family for adoption and “Other arrivals are planned in the coming days,” he said, adding that each of these departures had been “approved” by the Haitian authorities.

The incident occurred yesterday in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti devastated by the earthquake of January 12.

Six marine approached me, surrounded me before taking my camera in my open work bag. They then left with it, “he told the photographer Homer Cardichon, cited by the defense organization of journalists based in Paris.
“An hour later, one of them returned to photograph me and returned my camera. I found later  that soldiers had destroyed some of the photos I took,” said the photographer.

Denouncing “an act of blatant censorship,” The organization of Reporters Without Borders said that “information is essential to the reconstruction of Haiti and to the mobilization of citizens for their own future.”

More than 10,000 U.S. troops have been deployed to help Haiti after the earthquake that claimed over 200,000 lives by government.

So far, Laura Silsby, of the charity ‘Refuge for a new life for children, based in Idaho (north-western United States), was presented as the group leader. “We have come only to help children. We had good intentions,” she said.

The ten members of the group were arrested Friday near the Dominican border along with 33 children whose the youngest is 2 months old and the oldest of the 12 is 14 years old, according to sources. some have since been claimed by people posing as their parents.

The possibility of a trial outside of Haiti stems including the destruction of the judiciary, it was noticed in Government: The small building floor in Port-au-Prince is the only building of the Ministry of Justice still standing but his court was filled with tents and victims of the earthquake.

As most components of the Haitian State, the means of Justice had been undermined by the disaster, including the destruction of the courthouse and the death of dean of the Civil Court of First Instance, Rock Cadet.

Ten people, five men and five women, were arrested along with 31 children, aged 2 months to 12 years, a Haitian police officer while they were crossing the Dominican border, said Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Yves Christallin.

“This flight is not an adoption,” he said, adding that “to leave Haiti a child needs a permit from the Institute of Social Welfare, which handles cases adoption.

According to him, two pastors, one in Haiti and one in Atlanta (Southeast U.S.), are also involved in this case.

American citizens have been brought to justice and were held Saturday evening at the Central Directorate of Judicial Police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with two alleged accomplices, confirmed to AFP Chief of Police Mario Andresol .

An investigation was initiated to determine under what circumstances ten Americans came into possession of the children, said Andresol “is now in justice to his work,” he said, adding that children were transferred to a shelter in Croix-des-Bouquets, north of Port-au-Prince.

“It’s a shame that this is the Americans who are involved in this case because they are helping us like other countries do,” said the commerce minister.

In an interview with U.S. television network NBC, a relative of Americans said they arrested were charged with trafficking in children, and that this case was, they said, a misunderstanding administration.

The Americans were presented as part of a charity called “The Refuge for a new life for children, based in the state of Idaho (north-western United States).

Many children have been adopted since the earthquake that devastated Haiti January 12.

The U.S. administration on Wednesday urged the prospective adoptive parents of Haitian children to be patient, pending the establishment of “transparent” procedures to avoid mistakes and trafficking of children.