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Really invent orphans. haiti for a number of years before the earthquake had many orphanages that simply were not real orphanages. its kind of ironic that this woman from this idaho group is actually doing the same thing, treating children as a commodity. >> you think shes treating children as a commodity? how so? >> well, shes going to get some money off of adoptions and things. you cant do that for free. and many pastors, so-called pastors who are untrained and have no business running orphana...

Just wanted to help these children find a better life, good intentions. is that a viable defense? >> i dont want to put myself out as an expert on haitian law, but clearly given the circumstances its not a defense, and countries are very serious about keeping their people inside. even if conditions are difficult. this comes up in adoptions often, whether its in china, honduras, guatemala. this is something the countries take seriously. the fact they thought they were going something good is not ...

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Happens next. he says its clear the group was kidnapping the children, something the americans deny. a world expert on adoptions casting doubts on the groups efforts. >> the first impression was that it was something was obviously illegal and almost be wildering as to how they could bring children across the border without documentation. >> federal investigators are look into whether toyotas fix for the sticking gas pedal problems involves electrical issues. toyota says that is not the case and ...

If you promise to bring them to paradise. >> basically what you saying, for the best interest of the children, that the best interest is to stay exactly where they are in haiti right now, not allow them to go to the dominican republic or even move on to the united states? >> its not only the issue of the 33 children which we are talking now about. its also the issue of international adoption and s.o.s. and all other major childcare organization really stated it a week ago, please stop these inte...

>> understand, dan, at the same time our understanding is they were given directives, instructions on the paperwork they needed and they did exactly what they were told to do. so upon the arrival at the border, sorry, youre missing a piece, okay, lets go fix that problem. so, dan, based on the information we have we dont know of any mistakes that were made. >> reporter: i know that your folks have been on the phone with some people in haiti trying to get information. how is the group being treat...

>> maybe adoptions would be at some point in the future, but that was not the point of this trip at all. >> the goal -- they were going to acquire land, long-term, they were going to acquire land and build an orphanage and a school, and then the quake happened. >> yeah, january 12th brought a lot of emotion for a lot of folks and a great desire for folks that had needs in haiti. so these people in particular had a diagnose to go and simply help those that might have needs there. >> the children ...

Talking now about. its also the issue of international adoption and s.o.s. and all other major childcare organization really stated it a week ago, please stop these international adoptions because this opens the door also for crime. im not saying this is the case in this case of these ten americans, but we have to be sure that we do the registration, that we try to find the existing families, that we try to reunion all these unaccompanied, as much as possible as the unaccompanied kids here in ha...

>> what about what georg says, he doesnt like the idea of somebody coming in to adopt? >> there is no adoption that hasnt already been in the works. the queue was set. thats not correct. i think thats definitely a very confusing idea that we dont want to give to people. those adoptions were all set up. when people come to us now and say i want to adopt a haitian orphan, we need to say thats not the direction we want to be in. the direction at this point is the focus on children that need our ser...

Plan for them? were they going to stay there, or the end result here to have them adopted out to families possibly in the united states? >> dan, certainly no part of this trip were we going to have adoptions take place. the idea was to go and just as many americans have done, they saw a need in haiti. they wanted to go and take care of kids who had physical, medical needs and care for them there in haiti. adoption wasnt a part of the question at in the point. >> reporter: a lot of people have as...