KATU-TV Portland (Oregon) reports tonight that Laura Silsby may be in for more trouble. At first I thought this was a re-hash of Friday’s’s story, but unless I missed something, this is a new detail regarding the reason she continues to be held: The judge is looking over new documents that could link the two women to possible illegal travel in addition to other allegations of kidnapping after the two led a mission to take 33 children out of Haiti to a Dominican Republic orphanage. Haiti’s investigation determined none of the children were orphans. One of Silsby’s lawyers, Louis Ricardo Chachoute, denies there’s a problem. “Our clients are innocent because the documents are real there is no criminal conspiracy, no kidnapping.” BTW, how many lawyers does this woman have, and who’s paying or them? And who says this is about documents?TeamSilsby’s to-and fros on both sides of the island in the few days they were free to roam are confusing, and I don’t even want to try to set out a scheme here. (I’ve considered trying to work up a timeline). Anne-christine d’Adesky outlines a lot of curious details involving Silsby and DR officials in her Special Report update. The Continue Reading →

This entry is cross-posted with all my other Haiti work from my Haiti resource page, End Child Exportation and Trafficking in Haiti. Here I go pandering to Laura Silsby again! Reuters reported about an hour ago that Judge Bernard Saint-Vil signed a release order for Charisa Coulter’ today, but will hold Silsby for “further investigation. “(No details yet. Maybe he’s reading Baby Love Child or Haiti Vox or me!) Unfortunately for Ms Coulter, an “administrative glitch” will hold her in Haiti until Monday: Coulter was returned to custody on Friday because court administrators could not find an official stamp necessary to validate the judge’s signed order, Sainvil said. “I already signed the release order. All that is left now is to seal it but they cannot find the official stamp,” he said. There was no chance that Coulter would be released before Monday, chief prosecutor Joseph Manes Louis told Reuters. “I returned the order to the judge because there is an administrative problem. Once the problem is solved I will proceed according to the law,” he said. KTVB-Boise reports that the two prisoners met separately with Judge Saint-Vil today for about two hours each and gives a few additional details.

This entry is cross posted with all my other Haiti work from my Haiti Resource page, End Child Exportation and Trafficking in Haiti. Oh oh! You know you’re in trouble when your own lawyer dumps you! The Idaho Statesman reports today that on Monday Gerald T. Husch, Silsby’s lawyer back in Boise who has been representing her and Personal Shopper.com in a civil suit filed by a former unpaid employee, has filed a motion to withdraw as counsel. Husch has refused to comment on the move.I imagine a lot of straws have been piling up on that camel’s back. Perhaps the delusional statement to the AP yesterday (see previous entry) from his morally and probably financially bankrupt client that she wants to return to Haiti and DR to collect more kids and build her orphanage while her stiffed creditors line up at court and the poorhouse, was the last one. I know that as an officer of the court Husch (or somebody) has a fiduciary duty to defend even the most reprehensible, but how, with Silsby’s finances tossed on the rocks, can there even be a defense at this point except to throw her on the mercy of the court Continue Reading →

A mistaken attribution fixed from Randy Bohlener to DownshoreDrift) God continues to stick it to Laura Silsby and her combination cellie and live-in nanny Charisa Coulter. One or two more days in jail. Various news sources (I’m mostly using AFP via Raw Story, Verdict on US missionaries in Haiti imminent: US official with a little backup from the AP’s Haiti judge not ready to release 2 US missionaries), report that Judge Bernard Saint-Vil has heard testimony from his three unnamed witnesses (Why do we know who they are, but the MSM won’t name them: Hildago, Chenvert and Sanvil?) and now needs only to send the evidence to the prosecutor general’s office for a final go-over. “The final decision is mine,” Saint-Vil said. And from all accounts, the dynamic duo intend to be home soon.According to the AP: The two women were in good spirits while waiting for the hearing, dressed in casual shirts, shorts and sandals, chatting with members of their legal team and eating sandwiches. Afterward they filled out U.S. Embassy and court forms before boarding a Haitian police truck that took them back to jail. “We’re waiting on the judge’s decision and on our God,” Silsby told reporters Continue Reading →