The Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme.pdf

"The current Article makes three broad contributions. ... Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame"

"Eviction Hearing Scheduled for Laura Silsby’s Company, Personal Shopper Inc."

"Silsby had engaged an Atlanta-based Haitian minister, Reverend Jean Sainvil... to find ‘homeless’ children for her shelter"

"Silsby had engaged... a local orphanage worker, Isaac Adrien, to find ‘homeless’ children for her shelter"

"Silsby’s legal advisor—Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive—was arrested and accused of human tra"

"on January 26, 2010, she had previously attempted to take a different group of 40 children across the border"

"Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive"

"Silsby was instead convicted under the additional charge of organizing illegal travel, sentenced to time served (3 months and 8 days)"

"Judge Bernard Saint-Vil explained that his decision was based on the Haitian parents’ testimony that they had given their kids away voluntarily."

"She was immediately taken out of country to Miami for medical attention."

"The United States ratified the Hague Convention in 2000"

"a girl was adopted from Russia for the purposes of sexual exploitation"

"BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, & LABOR, U.S. DEP’T OF STATE"

"Laura Silsby, U.S. Missionary Leader, Convicted in Haiti... faced a lesser charge of organizing illegal travel"

"arrested a group of Idaho missionaries for attempting to cross the border into the Dominican Republic with 33 children"

"Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame"

"the missionaries were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association... brokered the release of all the missionaries, ex- cept for the group l"

"former President Bill Clinton accepted an expanded role as special envoy for Haiti, on behalf of the United Nations... since May 2009."

"Haitian authorities arrested ten U.S. Baptist missionaries... a week later, the missionaries were charged"

"defense lawyer Jorge Puello stated that the missionaries willingly accepted kids they knew were not orphans because the parents said they would starve"

"Another trial attorney for the missionaries, Aviol Fleurant, argued that the parents’ testimony means no law was broken"

"Her parents, Nadine Devilme and Junior Alexis, were informed of her removal because she was placed in a registry system."

"Her parents, Nadine Devilme and Junior Alexis, were informed of her removal because she was placed in a registry system."

"U.S. DEP’T OF STATE, 2010 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT: HAITI"

"the Haitian justice system—prodded in part by President Clinton’s diplomatic efforts on behalf of the missionaries"

"see also David M. Smolin, Child Laundering as Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption"

"linking intercountry adoption to child trafficking"

"President Clinton brokered the release of all the missionaries, ex- cept for the group leader, Laura Silsby."

"attempting to take 33 children by bus across the border into the Dominican Republic"

"Silsby’s purported charity did not yet manage an orphanage or own any property in the Dominican Republic"

"her connections to human traffickers such as Torres-Puello... defense lawyer Jorge Puello stated that the missionaries willingly accepted kids"

"Silsby’s stated intent to take the children... Baptist missionaries were justified in their actions because they were rescuing the children"

"Jean Sainvil, who faced the same charges as Silsby, was not clear."

"U.S. DEP’T OF STATE, FISCAL YEAR 2009 ANNUAL REPORT ON INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTIONS... the top twenty sending countries to the U.S... were China... Haiti"

"the Silsby case, apparently involving illicit means to facilitate ICA—namely fraud, deception, and the abuse of the families’ position of vulnerabilit"

"UNICEF defines child trafficking as the act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation"

"Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame"

"These market demands, justified in part by the rescue narrative, continue not only to drive lawful ICA but also, as in the Silsby case, to temper the "

"Smolin comments on the Masha Allen case in which a girl was adopted from Russia for the purposes of sexual exploitation."

"GLENN R. SMUCKER & GERALD F. MURRAY, USAID/HAITI MISSION, THE USES OF CHILDREN: A STUDY OF TRAFFICKING IN HAITIAN CHILDREN"

"GLENN R. SMUCKER & GERALD F. MURRAY, USAID/HAITI MISSION, THE USES OF CHILDREN: A STUDY OF TRAFFICKING IN HAITIAN CHILDREN"

"Attorneys Help Reunite ‘Baby Jenny’ with Her Haitian Family"

"Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame"

"The Silsby case is an example of how this can happen."

"UNICEF reports that each year approximately 2,000 children are trafficked to the Dominican Republic from Haiti"

"U.S. DEP’T OF LABOR, 2008 FINDINGS ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR – HAITI (2009)"

"Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame"

"Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame ... Harvard Human Rights Journal / Vol. 25"

"2012 / Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame"

"THE LAMP FOR HAITI FOUND. ET AL., “WE’VE BEEN FORGOTTEN”: CONDITIONS IN HAITI’S DISPLACEMENT CAMPS EIGHT MONTHS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE"