在海地获释的美国传教士抵达美国 Missionaries Freed from Haiti Arrive in U.S.

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18 February, 2010

被控在遭受地震灾难的海地绑架儿童的八名美国传教士已经抵达美国。将近三星期前他们在这个加勒比国家被逮捕。

星期四凌晨,一架载有这八人团体的美国军用飞机在佛罗里达迈阿密的一个机场降落。

这些传教士没有向新闻界发表什么任何谈话,接着,至少有7名传教士进入了附近的一家饭店。

海地一名法官星期三下令从狱中释放这八名传教士。不过这位法官说,这个浸礼会传教士团体领导人劳拉.西尔比以及另一名妇女查理萨.库尔特将继续拘留,就被控试图把33名海地儿童非法带出海地的问题接受进一步讯问。

西尔比和库尔特的律师弗伦兰特说,她们两人是无辜的。

Eight American missionaries who were charged with kidnapping children in earthquake-ravaged Haiti have arrived in the U.S., nearly three weeks after they were arrested in the Caribbean nation.

A U.S. military cargo plane carrying the group landed early Thursday at a Miami, Florida, airport.

The missionaries made few, if any, comments to reporters before at least seven of them entered a nearby hotel.

On Wednesday, a Haitian judge released the eight missionaries from jail. But the judge said the leader of the group of Baptist missionaries, Laura Silsby, and another woman, Charisa Coulter, would remain in custody to face further questioning about their alleged attempt to take 33 children out of the country illegally.

A lawyer for Silsby and Coulter, says his clients are innocent.