(Blog housekeeping note- Doing multiple posts today, please read down through my previous post as well.)
An important new development out of Haiti today, Laura Silsby, “Executive Director and Founder” of New Life Chidren’s Refuge and its botched “Haiti Orphan Rescue Plan” (link opens a PDF) is facing an additional charge tonight.
She is already facing kidnapping [...]

As I wrote last Friday, see Charisa Coulter’s release papers signed, Silsby becomes a useful scapegoat, it was clear her release would most likely happen today.
Not exactly surprising, especially considering her medical condition.
(How insane do you have to be to be diabetic and yet run off to a post earthquake disaster zone where access to [...]

Been meaning to mention this here for a few days now.
By way of a brief refresher overview on the Rendells’ Raid, readers may want to refer back to this piece from my earlier post Haiti series- “It is madness. It is insane…” Bribes, Bullies, and Traffickers extract kids, Part 4: Kids not in an adoption [...]

Has this whole spectacle of the New Lifer’s arrests in Haiti and the ensuing international incident taught the people involved any kind of lesson, led to any form of remorse (other than their remorse at being caught red-handed), or dissuaded them from their current intended course of actions?
Apparently not.
By way of keeping this post short [...]

I wanted to highlight a comment I just received to this post as it brings out some of broader themes I’ve been trying to find time to write to.
The Wall Street Journal article Teresa references below concerning Laura’s Silsby’s apparent previous attempt at building a complex in Kuna, Idaho for runaway youth via Idaho contractor [...]

It has been apparent for some time now that  the “New Life Children Refuge” Laura Silsby and the teams in Haiti and the Dominican Republic were working on didn’t just magically spring into being.
It was a project built upon church networks, and supported financially by churches and the members thereof.
In this post, I’m going to [...]

First, go read this introduction and this, Special Report: Puello Says Other Dominicans Helped Silsby written by Anne-christine d’Adesky on her Haiti Vox blogs.
***
Back on Feb 13th, on twitter I posted this intriguing observation from the linked article-
via @TriniWarao “He helped us find the lawyer we have now” Detained Americans seek distance from adviser. #Haiti [...]

In all the insanity surrounding the Haitian mess, I haven’t had time to really scratch the surface of the Jorge Puello story beyond the initial post I wrote as the trafficking allegations against Puello first came to light:
NYT- El Salvador Investigates Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti (Jorge Puello)
While I’ve been following it closely, others [...]

See 8 Americans detained in Haiti freed on bail, 2 others to remain as but one of no doubt what will become an avalanche of coverage.
Laura Silsby and  Charisa Coulter remain in custody, they:
will remain in Haiti because the judge wants to determine why they traveled to Haiti on an earlier trip before the January [...]

Let’s pull all the way out to the wide focus for a moment by way of a starting place. All of the writing and detail work I have been writing over the past month about the situation in Haiti is due to the fact that this is a Bastard blog, written in Bastard voice about [...]