Thanks for posting this.

This is a good CNN article. I looked up the author, Kevin Voigt ( https://twitter.com/kevinvoigt) ), and he has written some sensible opinions on a multitude of issues. Not the propaganda that CNN usually puts out. Here at pizzagate, we spend a lot of time calling out the bad guys. I thought it would give a shoutout to one of the good guys.

Silsby section of article:

The international adoption debate played out on the world stage in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed 200,000, when a group of U.S. Christian missionaries were accused of kidnapping "orphans." Laura Silsby led a group of 10 missionaries from Idaho that was stopped at the Dominican Republic border as they tried to cross the border with 33 children without proper legal documentation. Silsby originally claimed the children were orphaned or abandoned, but the Haitian government and the orphans' charity SOS Children later found that all had at least one living parent.

Laura Silsby , the head of New Life Children's Refuge, arrived for a Port-au-Prince court hearing in February 2010 in Haiti. Charges against all but Silsby were dropped; Silsby was jailed for four months before being tried on charges of arranging illegal travel by a Haitian court and released on time served . Some parents told CNN they placed their children in Silsby's care because that was the only way they knew to ensure a better quality of life for them.

Silsby's group, New Life Children's Refuge , said it was going to house the children in a converted hotel in the Dominican Republic and later move them to an orphanage. According to the itinerary of Silsby's mission, part of the group's plan, in addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, was for the planned orphanage to "equip each child with a solid education and vocational skills as well as opportunities for adoption into a loving Christian family."

While the incident -- which some labeled "kidnapping for Jesus" -- painted a dark picture of good intentions for international adoption advocates, the Haiti earthquake also offered a victory when in April 2010, the Obama administration granted "humanitarian parole" to speed up U.S. adoptions of Haitian children already in progress.

By August of that year, some 1,500 Haitian orphans joined U.S. families.

CNN trying to do damage control?

Great find, good research! Keep it up!

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Upvoat4You Great Article and Thanks for Posting.

"The same story happens again in country after country," said David Smolin, director of the center for Children, Law and Ethics at Samford University. Smolin, along with many other experts and organizations -- including UNICEF and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption -- believe that orphans being adopted from abroad should be a last-case scenario, with more emphasis placed on helping keep children in their home country, such as providing day care, foster care, better orphanages and more domestic adoption. I DON'T know about Smolin but UNICEF has just been mentioned on here as having had some top people arrested in Brussels for CP. The article is very good though considering it comes from CNN. This was about 4 yrs. ago, and shows how different things are now. Not a peep from the MSM. They are trying to sweep Child Trafficking under the rug a though it does not exist. Would it not be wonderful for more articles from CNN.

So much truth in here. Not sure if this article would be allowed to be published today. PG related like the sky is blue