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Experience in dealing with orphans nor in handling orphans once they get them in their grasp so to speak. in fact they say they didnt know where they were going to get orphans from until they got a meeting with the haitian pastor at the border point coming across. they said the haitian pastor directed them to where they were going. of course, theres another element to this story. today we were up in a mountain village, an hours drive out of port-au-prince and there we met the parents of 21 of th...

The door open to the fact these ten american baptists could be sent to the u.s. to face trial, larry. >> larry: georgia, first, how are the children doing? there are 33 of them, right? how are they doing, george? >> yes, there are 33 of these children at the village close to port-au-prince. today they did quite well. two days ago as they came to our village the situation was quite different but we tried to give them a safe place, a safe haven so that they really could feel well and that they get...

>> larry: 10:00 eastern 7:00 p.m. with wolf blitzer tonight. see you then, wolf. karl penhaul is in port-au-prince, haiti, so is george willi, for s.o.s. childrens villages. the 33 children caught up in what haitian authorities allege was a trafficking scheme. now, karl, the latest on the ten citizens being detained in haiti that took a bus load of undocumented haitian children out of haiti. whats the latest on those ten, karl? >> reporter: well, theyre still sitting in jail cells near the airpo...

Taken away from the parents with the hope of going to a boarding school or summer camp in the dominican republic. >> larry: were you surprised that those people took them, george? were you surprised? >> i do not know anything about the attention of these people, of these ten americans. what i do know, i do know about, we are working all over the world, 60 years and do know about the needs of children and do know what are the best interest of the child. the best interest of the child is to stay w...