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Hillary Violated State Department Policy to Get Convicted Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead.
Hillary Violated State Department Policy to Get Convicted Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead.
In a well-known criminal case in which an American woman from Idaho attempted to smuggle 33 Haitian children across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic soon after the 2010 earthquake, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took extraordinary measures, including the deployment of former president Bill Clinton as a negotiator, and went against State Department policy to get the woman released and sent back to the states to freedom. Also released were 9 co-participants in the enterprise, who denied any in-depth knowledge of the plan.
It is highly unusual for a secretary of state to get personally involved in a case of arrested Americans abroad. Department policy is not to interfere with a host nation's legal proceedings.
Laura Sislby, now age 46, was convicted in a Haitian court in 2010 of lesser charges than human trafficking, although the Haitian public was demanding such charges. Described by CBS News as an "Idaho businesswoman," Silsby took the Haitian children from their homes with promises to their parents of a "better life" for them in a school in the Dominican Republic, although she had stated to members of an Idaho church, and the Haitian authorities, that the children were orphans. Silsby had falsely stated at one point that she had found the children in front of a collapsed orphanage. READ MORE:
Hillary Violated State Department Policy to Get Convicted Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead.
Hillary Violated State Department Policy to Get Convicted Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead.
In a well-known criminal case in which an American woman from Idaho attempted to smuggle 33 Haitian children across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic soon after the 2010 earthquake, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took extraordinary measures, including the deployment of former president Bill Clinton as a negotiator, and went against State Department policy to get the woman released and sent back to the states to freedom. Also released were 9 co-participants in the enterprise, who denied any in-depth knowledge of the plan.
It is highly unusual for a secretary of state to get personally involved in a case of arrested Americans abroad. Department policy is not to interfere with a host nation's legal proceedings.
Laura Sislby, now age 46, was convicted in a Haitian court in 2010 of lesser charges than human trafficking, although the Haitian public was demanding such charges. Described by CBS News as an "Idaho businesswoman," Silsby took the Haitian children from their homes with promises to their parents of a "better life" for them in a school in the Dominican Republic, although she had stated to members of an Idaho church, and the Haitian authorities, that the children were orphans. Silsby had falsely stated at one point that she had found the children in front of a collapsed orphanage. READ MORE:
Hillary Violated State Department Policy to Get Convicted Child Trafficker Out of Haiti. Activist Found Dead.
