Haiti to Dominican Republic Trafficking and Silsby’s Lawyer

A pathetic sentence was handed down to Jorge Orellana Torres Puello, the man who posed as legal adviser to the Laura Silsby-led church group which sought to “traffic 33 children out of Haiti in February of 2010.

A federal court issued Torres a 37 month prison sentence on a 2002 case in which he smuggled people into the United States from Canada.

Torres has eluded authorities in the U.S., Canada, El Salvador and Costa Rica, for 6 years but was discovered in the Dominican Republic when he appeared as adviser for the Idaho-10.

The group from Idaho were released from prison and its ring leader, Laura Silsby, served 3 months and 8 days[a conviction for arranging illegal travel] before being released. Silsby was facing a maximum of 3 years.

Subsequent investigations found that all but one of the 33 children that the group attempted to traffic out of Haiti had at least one living parent.

Extradited to the United States in September of 2010, it is expected that Torres will be released in 8 months for time spent incarcerated in Canada and the Dominican Republic.”

Legal Advisor to Idaho-10 Gets 3-Year Sentence
[Defend Haiti 6/15/11 by Sonny Lindo]

March 2011 Article Showing How Traffickers Obtain Dominican Republic Birth Certificates for Haitian Children

For those that could not understand how it would have been possible for Silsby’s group to obtain birth certificates and adopt the Haitian children from the Dominican Republic, this explains it.

“Law enforcement authorities in the Dominican Republic cracked down on a network of Dominican women who pretended to be the biological mothers of Haitian children to receive birth certificates and to legalize the children as Dominican citizens.

The president of the Central Electoral Board Mr. Roberto Rosario warned Dominican women who participated in such practice will face criminal charges. The Dominican women had gone to the Civil Registrar offices posing as biological mothers of Haitian children in exchange for an unknown amount of Dominican Pesos.

Mr. Rosario stated a central Electoral Board investigations had uncovered the illegal practices last week. Such practices are very common in Dominican Republic. Mr. Rosario added the women who participate in such illegal activities do so because they are oblivious of the methods which easily detect the link between parents and children, such as DNA testing.”

Authorities Bust Ring of Dominican Women Posing as Mothers of Haitian Children
[Defend Haiti 3/24/11 by Gregg Tertulien]

For a detailed analysis of Laura Silsby’s actions in Haiti, read Silsby-Ultimate Savior Complex .

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