Arrogance put them in jail
The missionaries who made the decision to take about 30 children out of Haiti into the Dominican Republic after the earthquake have such arrogance concerning their ideals and beliefs, they don’t realize what they did was wrong. In fact, with the threat of trafficking children, they still argue their mission was righteous and there have been no apologies.
According to news reports, they were doing God’s work. But, so were the Crusaders, the Taliban and countless other groups throughout history who feel their actions were justified. Because God said it was.
The missionaries must have realized it was against the law. Or didn’t they care? From recent news reports, some of these children were not orphans due to the earthquake, but homeless, along with their families. There parents may have not felt they could take care of their children properly, but that does not give the Idaho missionaries the right to just gather the children up and take them to another country. How dare they take matters into their own hands, defy the laws of Haiti and steal children away without proper documentation and permission from the government?
If an earthquake occurs in Idaho, and a group of “Austrailians” comes in to whisk away children to “Canada”, I’ll bet these people will not allow it. They probably would be outraged. Why do they think it’s OK to do it to others?
They should stand trial and pay for their arrogance.
Totally agree. The best comparison though would be the American setting in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Do you think this same group would swoop in to a devastated neighborhood in New Orleans, where poverty was an issue before the natural disaster, and take children away from willing parents without getting the government’s permission to do so? In Haiti, we’re talking about families who felt they could not provide for their children anymore. The same could have been said for hundreds of families in New Orleans. This is a cut and dry case of a group of so-called missionaries (honestly, all it takes is a bible and the name of a church group to be considered a missionary) taking advantage of an impoverished nation and its susceptible civilians. Perhaps we should go take the children of these missionaries, because their parents won’t be able to provide for them with prayers from a jail cell.