ATLANTA, GA - Jim Allen, one of the eight American volunteers freed from jail in Haiti, said he believed the team had all the paperwork necessary to take Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
“We were told that all the documents required to get kids into the Dominican Republic she (team leader Laura Silsby) had,” said Allen to Anderson Cooper on CNN’s AC360 Friday evening. “And on the Haitian side there were some documents that we needed to acquire and that was part of our goal also.”
Jim Allen is one of the ten American Christian volunteers who was arrested January 29th by Haitian authorities as they were trying to transport 33 Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
During the AC360 interview, Allen addressed the controversy surrounding the fact that up to two-thirds of the children the group was transporting had at least one living parent. Allen said he was “not at all” aware that many of the children had a living parent.
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Topic: Freed Haiti Volunteer: I Thought We Had All the Paperwork
