Actually, that appears to be exactly what the leader of this "rescue group", Laura Silsby had in mind.
She had already established a non-profit organization in Idaho for the purpose of setting up and constructing a Haitian Child Refuge center in the Dominican Republic.
She also had plans for an adoptive parent center for Americans coming to the Dominican Republic, as it takes some 60 to 90 days of the prospective parents to be in the country, in order to adopt a child in the DR.
It seems that Silby moved up the timetable considerably because of the earthquake, and began recruiting members of two churches in Boise to go with her.
Now, with the children she had with her at the time of the groups arrest, 22 of the 33 had parents in Haiti, and Sillby had made promises to them of allowing the parents to see their kids regularly, and to have in the DR for as short a time as possible. But, that's not what she told authorities and reporters, immediately after the groups arrest:
Laura Silsby speaks from Haitian jail cell | Idaho News from KTVB.COM | Boise news, Idaho weather, sports, traffic & events | Home
If that were truly the case, why go to ravaged villages, and convince the parents to give up their children to them, promising a safe return of their children when things in Haiti got better?
And if some of the children were already in orphanages in Haiti, why move them to the DR?
Then there is the investigative reporting done by the
Idaho Statesman newspaper, that found troubling financial and legal problems surrounding Silsby:
The strange case of Laura Silsby | Denton Record Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas | Opinion: Editorials
I said it in the other thread on this subject, and I'll say it here. The recruits from the Baptist churches in Idaho are most likely guilty only of getting caught up in Silby's stories of aid to the Haitian children, and should be released with a ticket on the first plane out of Haiti.
Laura Silsby, however, the more is known about her, appears to be nothing more than a scam artist and con-woman, and deserves to have the brunt of the charges fall directly upon her head.