Hillary Violated State Policy to Get Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead

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Hillary Violated State Department Policy to Get Convicted Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead.

In a well-known criminal case (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/02/laura_silsby_haiti_orphans_wou.html) in which an American woman from Idaho attempted to smuggle 33 Haitian children across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic soon after the 2010 earthquake, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took extraordinary measures, including the deployment of former president Bill Clinton (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi7zOeakJjQAhWM6oMKHehxCyUQFgggMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pressreader.com%2Fnew-zealand%2Fthe-dominion-post%2F20100208%2F281882999485525&usg=AFQjCNEHw6wRA-qmudgjr_ZWmDxtqWS9Qg&sig2=Y-lQ4Ue1wr4s3rIPWi4zHw) as a negotiator, and went against State Department policy to get the woman released and sent back to the states to freedom. Also released were 9 co-participants in the enterprise, who denied any in-depth knowledge of the plan.

It is highly unusual for a secretary of state to get personally involved in a case of arrested Americans abroad. Department policy is not to interfere with a host nation's legal proceedings.

Laura Sislby, now age 46, was convicted in a Haitian court in 2010 of lesser charges than human trafficking, although the Haitian public was demanding such charges. Described by CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-laura-silsby/) as an "Idaho businesswoman," Silsby took the Haitian children from their homes with promises to their parents of a "better life" for them in a school in the Dominican Republic, although she had stated to members of an Idaho church, and the Haitian authorities, that the children were orphans. (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703357104575045794048725562)Silsby had falsely stated at one point that she had found the children in front of a collapsed orphanage (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/haiti-prosecutors-seek-months-prison-woman-tried-remove-kids-quake-1947670658.html). READ MORE:
http://hubpages.com/politics/Hillary-Violated-State-Department-Policy-to-Get-Convicted-Child-Traffickers-Out-of-Haiti

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3500 Americans arrested why these?

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She served out her full sentence in Haiti. Clinton did not intervene. The "proof" that Clinton had any involvement is that Huma Abedin forwarded her a couple articles about it.


The ten missionaries, led by Silsby, flew to the Dominican Republic on January 22, chartered a bus, and arrived in Haiti on January 25.[6] American journalist Anne-Christine d'Adesky claims that she met Silsby the day before the missionaries' entry into Haiti. The NLCR's leader explained that she had a letter from Dominican officials authorizing the transfer of orphans to the hotel in Cabarete. D'Adesky warned Silsby that she also required proper paperwork from Haitian authorities.[6] On January 26, the group gathered forty children and set off for the Dominican Republic. They were stopped by a policeman, who explained that their actions were illegal. [7] [8] Undeterred the group set out to collect orphans from the devastated town of Calebasse (or Callabas) and from the slum of Le Citron in Port-au-Prince. [9] [10] 33 children (20 from Calebasse and 13 from Le Citron) were put under the mission's care. On the night of January 29, the missionaries were arrested while trying to cross the Dominican border without proper authorization. They denied any wrongdoing and maintained that they were doing God's will by helping orphaned victims of the quake. [11] The children were sent to the SOS Children's Village orphanage in Croix-des-Bouquets, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, and it became clear that most (if not all) of them were not orphans.[12] NLCR missionaries maintained that they were told that the children were orphaned. In turn, people in Calebasse and SOS Children's Villages accused the missionaries of lying about their intentions.[9][12] Although the children's relatives were told that they would be able to visit them and eventually take them back, the NLCR's mission statement clearly outlined plans for adoption.[1][9]

On February 4, the ten Baptists were formally charged with criminal association and kidnapping for trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti. [13] In an interview, the United States Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten, stated that the U.S. justice system would not interfere and added "the Haitian justice system will do what it has to do." [14] On February 17, eight of the ten members of the NLCR team were released by Haitian judge Bernard Saint-Vil. They were immediately flown back to Miami on a US Air Force transport plane. Laura Silsby-Gayler and Charisa Coulter, were held over for more questioning.[15] On March 8 Coulter was also released, but Silsby remained incarcerated. [16] [17] [18] The charges against Silsby were eventually reduced from conspiracy and child abduction to "arranging irregular travel". Her trial began on May 13, and prosecutors asked for a 6-month prison sentence, arguing that Silsby was fully aware that she did not have proper authorization to take the children out of the country.[3] On May 17, she was found guilty and sentenced to the time served in jail prior to the trial.[4]

Laura Silsby-Gayler[edit]

Laura Silsby founded the New Life Children’s Refuge and led the expedition in Haiti. Though she was freed after serving her sentence in Haiti, she also faced legal problems in Idaho. [19] [20] In early March 2010, her attorney in these cases filed a motion to withdraw as her counsel.[21] Another lawyer who represented Silsby in a child custody case also withdrew as her attorney.[22]

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