Haitian judge has decided to release 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children, Reuters reports.
Last week, the Americans were charged with kidnapping and criminal association for trying to take 33 children into the neighbouring Dominican Republic on January 29 without proper
documentation.
The Baptist missionaries say they were heading to a Dominican orphanage following Haiti's devastating quake, and had only good intentions.
A source said the missionaries could be released as early as Thursday.
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"The order will be to release them," the source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. The decision has not yet been made public.
"One thing an investigating judge seeks in a criminal investigation is criminal intentions on the part of the people involved and there is nothing that shows that criminal intention on the part of the Americans," the source said.
