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It's unclear how 32 year-old Jorge Torres Puello became involved with the American missionaries in Haiti. | Adoption `Lawyer' in Haiti Tied to Child Sex Case
by Patricia Mazzei, Michael Sallah and Gerardo Reyes, The Miami Herald
SANTO DOMINGO, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The man providing legal advice to American church workers charged with trying to take children out of Haiti did jail time in the United States for bank fraud years before emerging as the key suspect in a child prostitution ring in El Salvador, according to records and interviews.
The mother and stepfather of Jorge Anibal Torres Puello told The Miami Herald in an extensive interview Saturday the fugitive wanted by Salvadoran police was their son, who has been advising the church volunteers in the unfolding legal drama.
"That's him,'' a teary Ana Puello said from her modest home in the outskirts of Santo Domingo. "But those things they say about him, I doubt they're true . . . He told me, `Mami, I swear I didn't.' He would never hurt a child.''
Though his wife was convicted in the case, Torres Puello left the country -- wanted by Salvadoran police -- before ending up in Haiti.
The revelations represent another twist in the drama surrounding the church workers from Idaho, who have been jailed for trying to take 33 children from Haiti without permission after the earthquake ripped through Port-au-Prince on January 12th.
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Edited by News Editor on 02/15/2010 at 5:30pm
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Topic: Adoption `Lawyer’ in Haiti Tied to Child Sex Case
