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Haiti's 'orphans' easy prey post-quake

2012-06-01 1 Dailymotion

A Haitian judge is expected to rule today whether there is sufficient evidence to try the 10 jailed American missionaries for child trafficking. <br /><br />They were arrested for trying to bring 33 children they believed were orphans out of the earthquake-hit country.<br /><br />The children, whose ages ranged from 2 months to 12 years, are now staying in a temporary home.<br /><br />Haitian officials have given warning that child traffickers could take advantage of the chaos after the quake.<br /><br />The 7.0-magnitude quake on January 12 killed 170,000 people, made more than one million homeless and left many children vulnerable in Haiti.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from Port-au-Prince on how orphans are easy prey for child traffickers.<br /><br />[February, 3, 2010]

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