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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 didn t 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, there s another element to this story. today we were up in a mountain village, an hour s drive out of port-au-prince and there we met the parents of 21 of the 33 children. and as george was saying most of these children do have parents and the parents that we talked to said that they willingly gave away their children. they said their families were simply too poor to sustain the children, especially after the quake and they said they gave away the children to the americans. they personally put their kids on the bus because they believe they were going to a bragter future where their kids would have school, where they kids ....
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 the care and attention they need and some of them even do get psychological treatment. larry: is it true, george, that some of them are not orphans? yes, that s absolutely true. around 20 of them at least are not orphans. they lived with their parents at their parents home. they were not given from parents to orphanages like sometimes happens in haiti. they lived and stayed together with their parents and they were ....
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. children s 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. what s the latest on those ten, karl? reporter: well, they re still sitting in jail cells near the airport in port-au-prince. when i talked to them twice over the weekend they said the conditions were spartan but they were treated well by they jail alrea lors they did have too much to eat and too much water but trying to keep spirits high by reading passages from the bible. they were to come before a judge today. that didn t happen we understand. they may come before a judge tomorrow. there s a possibility the haitian prime minister has left ....
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 with his parents and not be separated from them. this was a clear separation, at least of some of the kids from their existing parents and from their homes. larry: karl, is it the belief that they acted in haste here? reporter: well, i think there are a number of elements we have to look at here. yes, from what they described to me their mission was a very poorly planned mission. they quite clearly had no ....