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Waggoner now believes he knows the reason behind his horrible ordeal. i spoke with him exclusively a short time ago via skype. paul, it s great to see you free. how does it feel to be out of prison? it s awesome. it feels great. how did this happen today, that yesterday we spoke with your colleague, and it wasn t clear exactly whether or not you were going to be freed. so tell us how it came to be today. well, big paul pushed it and pushed it until it went through. i had actually just finished dinner and laid down to go to sleep, whenever the guards came through and told me it was time to release me, for me to get dressed and be ready to go in a few minutes. what was prison like there for you? how scared were you that you might never have gotten out? well, due to all the delays, it was kind of beginning to look like it would possibly drag out for a long time and maybe even go, you know, a bad direction. ....
We have breaking news tonight in a story we ve been following closely, paul waggoner was freed late today from prison in haiti. waggoner is an american volunteer who went to haiti after january s earthquake and who was imprisoned on an accusation he kidnapped a 15-month-old child and turned him into a zombie. in other words, that he practiced voo doo on the little boy. in fact, the child was brought by his father to the hospital last february where waggoner was working. the boy was critically ill and died. the hospital issued a death certificate and the boy s body was cremated on-site because the father said he had no money for burial. that s when things took a nightmarish turn for waggoner. the father made the kidnapping and voo doo allegation insisting his son was still alive. a summons was issued, waggoner was arrested and held in national penitentiary. even though he was never officially charged by haitian authorities. it was during a hearing before an investigative judge yesterday ....
Held in haiti s notorious national penitentiary. the accusation was made by the child s father who tells people his son is alive. a hearing was held today before an investigative magistrate with both waggoner and the father present. a colleague of waggoners telling cnn the hearing lasted about four hours but was cut short due to a power outage. no ruling was issued, but waggoner supporters are hoping the judge may decide tomorrow to release him. here s the background of the story and how it got to this point. a month after the earthquake devastated haiti, waggoner was volunteering when a man walked in to a hospital with his son who did not survive. he was asked to come in the following day to claim the body. an american doctor was present at the hospital the next day. in an affidavit, dr. adams says when the father was shown the remains of his son, he says, it jokingly looked like the baby ....