After reading the article on cbcnews.ca, I was surprised to see that Haiti's communications minister wants these 10 to be tried in the U.S. and not Haiti. Why should they be tried for a crime that originated in Haiti, when they are already being detained there? Wouldnt it cost more money to fly these 'kidnappers' over to the U.S. and then have a lengthy and drawn out trial due to the slow pace of western proceedings.
I assume they had knowledge of the consequences when they traveled to the ruined republic, and should have judgement passed on them by it's citizens, not their American peers and colleagues. Maybe what should happen is that the group should be detained UNTIL infrastructure exists for them to be tried. I don't think that the U.S. should try to bring them 'home' when its clear what they have allegedly done (or attempted to do) is a heinous act anywhere in the world.
The mistakes that they made with some of the children even declaring that they were not orphans to the press, completely incriminates the group, because of how open the whole thing was, and the reason why I guess this doesn't happen often. The justice that should be administered to them should not be American justice, it should be Haitian justice. End of story.
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Interesting case. Consider...trafficking in children is a "cross border" crime. The alleged traffickers came for the US...at this point Haiti does not have the resources to proceed with criminal charges...why not let the U.S. deal with them ? They appear to have gone to Haiti in the name of humanitarian aid, and in fact they likely still think they were doing the "right thing". Let the U.S. judicial system send a strong message to others in the U.S. who have the same ideas.
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