AP Top News at 2:19 p.m. EST

By AP
Sunday, January 31, 2010

AP Top News at 2:19 p.m. EST

Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fears over possible child trafficking. The church members, most from Idaho, said they were trying to rescue abandoned and traumatized children. But officials said they lacked the proper documents when they were arrested Friday night in a bus along with children from 2 months to 12 years old who had survived the catastrophic earthquake.

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