PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Joyful parents yesterday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago. The 33 children had been living at an orphanage near Port-au-Prince since police stopped a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries from taking them across the Dominican border on Jan. 29 after Haiti's earthquake.
Orphanage officials said all but one of the children were given back to 22 families. A remaining child is awaiting further verification of her parents' identities.
Nine of the 10 Baptist missionaries involved have been released and left Haiti. Group leader Laura Silsby remains in custody.
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