Missionaries Land in Miami From Haiti

Eight bedraggled, sweaty American missionaries arrived in Miami on Thursday after spending almost three weeks in a Haitian jail, freed after Haitian parents testified that they had voluntarily handed over their children to the group. The Baptists mostly hailed from two churches in Idaho, and were charged with attempting to take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic on Jan. 29 without the proper papers. Two of their number—leader Laura Silsby and nanny Charisa Coulter—are still being held in Haiti for questioning about their pre-earthquake trip to the country. The group has denied allegations of trafficking, saying that it was only trying to rescue child quake victims.