It wasn’t until police stopped a bus carrying the Haitian children near the border of the Dominican Republic that the nine other Baptists working with Laura Silsby realized that the Boise woman lacked the documents needed to take the children out of Haiti, said Edwin Coq, lawyer for all 10 Baptists.
Silsby knew all along that she lacked the paperwork she needed but led the group to the border anyway, Coq said in a telephone interview with the Idaho Statesman through a translator.
“When she was arrested at the border, she told police she was authorized by the consul general (of the Dominican Republic) to leave the country,” Coq said. “They called the consul general on speaker phone and he said, ‘Laura, I already told you not to leave the country.’”
via Haitian lawyer: Nine Baptists were conned | Local News | Idaho Statesman.
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