I didn’t plan to post anymore on Team Silsby tonight, but then I got a couple news stories that just struck me as…well, you’ll see.
Felicia Middlebrooks from WBBM-AM Chicago is in Haiti and tracked down Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter in their inconvenient jail cell. Go here and listen to it. Much of Middlebrook’s report is her own complaints about the conditions. Holy Jorge Puello! There’s no air conditioning…and..and…and….it’s 90 degrees…and…and…and… there’s no eletricity…and…and…and…there’s no plumbing or at least the kind American ladies and gentlemen use willingly.
Middlebrooks fails to mention that Team Silsby has a roof over its head, unlike hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in tents and streets. They have real homes to return to when they get out, even if Silsbuy’s been foreclosed. Homes with air conditioning, electricity and plumbing
Then there’s Drew Culberth, the Kansas firefighter and youth minister who got roped into child snatching by his brother-in-law Eastside Baptist Church pastor Paul Thompson who got roped into child snatching by Central Baptist Church patron Laura Silsby. Seems Drew, Pastor Thompson, and detainees Silas Thompson and Steve McMullin had a little party at the Bethany Baptist Church in Topeka before the latter three headed back home to Twin Falls, Idaho. The party was reported by their lawyer and hatchling right wing pol, Caleb Stegall who tells us:
they feasted on pizza and Mountain Dew, reconnecting and sharing stories as Drew Culberth’s four children ran through the halls, happy and excited to be reunited with their dad.
EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The fuel that youth ministries run on.
Party indeed. These people should be in hiding from embarrassment. They aren’t even smart enough to know what leeches they are.
Silsby and Coulter are STILL in jail, although they expect to be released soon:
“The last two Idaho missionaries jailed at a Haitian police station expect to head home soon.
Laura Silsby tells The Associated Press from behind bars she doesn’t think they will be there “much longer.”
Silsby and her nanny Charisa Coulter are awaiting a judge’s orders to release them.
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The judge told AP on Tuesday he is awaiting a recommendation from prosecutors. He says he could order their release even if authorities decide to continue investigating.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100303/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained
Of course, they thought they would get out yesterday…
Silsby is still blah-blah-ing from her jail cell:
“Laura Silsby told The Associated Press from her jail cell that she and nanny Charisa Coulter expect to be released soon, but would both readily come back despite their troubles here.
“Oh yes, both of us would come back to Haiti because there is so much need here, especially for the children,” Silsby told an AP reporter at the airport-side police station where they are being held.
“We would definitely come back to help them once this misunderstanding or whatever you want to call it is sorted out.”
Louis Ricardo Chachoute, a lawyer for the Americans, said he has asked that they be released without bail and believes it will happen by the end of the week, perhaps as early as Thursday. The decision is up to the judge in the case.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100304/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained
‘Both of us would come back here…especially for the children’
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I’ll come back to Haiti: US missionary15:13 AEST Thu Mar 4 201029 minutes agoBy Michelle Faul
US missionary Laura Silsby intends to return to Haiti to help children after her release from jail.
—Mar 04, 2010
A US Baptist missionary detained on suspicion of child trafficking in Haiti says she would be ready to return to the earthquake-ravaged country to work with children.
Laura Silsby told The Associated Press from her jail cell on Wednesday that she and nanny Charisa Coulter expect to be released soon, but would both readily come back despite their troubles in Haiti.
“Oh yes, both of us would come back to Haiti because there is so much need here, especially for the children,” Silsby told an AP reporter at the airport-side police station where they are being held.
“We would definitely come back to help them once this misunderstanding or whatever you want to call it is sorted out.”
Louis Ricardo Chachoute, a lawyer for the Americans, said he has asked that they be released without bail and believes it will happen by the end of the week, perhaps as early as Thursday. The decision is up to the judge in the case.
“What I can say is our clients are innocent,” Chachoute said. “They only wanted to help.”
The Idaho missionaries were detained with eight other Americans on January 29 while trying to take 33 children from Haiti without the proper papers.
Silsby initially said the children were orphaned in the January 12 earthquake that killed a government-estimated 230,000 people. But it was found the children had been given away by still-living parents.
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil could decide on releasing the women at any time. He told AP he is awaiting a recommendation from prosecutors and could order their release even if authorities decide to continue investigating.
Silsby and Coulter denied any suggestion they were trafficking in children, saying that the group was arranging an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Three witnesses were brought in to corroborate that story to Saint-Vil on Tuesday.
The missionary said she wants to go ahead with setting up that orphanage, taking in both earthquake victims and the children of Haitian migrant sugarcane cutters in the Dominican Republic.
From Ausie news today.