See 8 Americans detained in Haiti freed on bail, 2 others to remain as but one of no doubt what will become an avalanche of coverage. Laura Silsby and  Charisa Coulter remain in custody, they: will remain in Haiti because the judge wants to determine why they traveled to Haiti on an earlier trip before […]

Let’s pull all the way out to the wide focus for a moment by way of a starting place. All of the writing and detail work I have been writing over the past month about the situation in Haiti is due to the fact that this is a Bastard blog, written in Bastard voice about […]

And just when you thought this mess couldn’t get much more convoluted? Along comes  Jorge Puello. El Salvador Investigates Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls is also a […]

I wanted to put up at least a brief post tonight about the other baptist missionaries who were also part of the child extraction effort, but not arrested as they were in the Dominican Republic working out the details of where to put the kids once they arrived on that side of the border. There […]

CNN has new details up tonight. Anderson Cooper AC360 also included a video segment discussing a new witness’s perspective on the actions of Silsby and the 9 other American missionary child scavengers’s actions, Americans jailed in Haiti tried taking other kids, officer says The group of American Baptist missionaries in Haiti who are facing kidnapping […]

So today provides yet another profile of yet another Baptist evangelical scavenger, Mike Roberts, the North Texas CEO of “Source Direct.” The Dallas Morning News has done an article on yet another scavenger on a “mission from god”  to do the kind of work in Haiti that can decide who lives and who dies, and […]

Obviously, there are a great number of things I could say about the ten American missionary child scavengers sitting in a Haitian Jail at the moment. But what I have to say is not the point. It’s their own words that are at issue here. Already,  just in the short time since their arrests, conflicting […]

Once again, I’m going to pick up my partner Mike’s writing about the Friday evening arrests of 10 missionaries for their attempted removal of kids from Haiti to the Dominican Republic. The text below the line is Mike’s latest post from his personal blog. American citizens pose for a photo at police headquarters in the […]

Bastardette has created a new blog corraling many of the Haiti and child export writings from both her blog and a variety of other writers together in one place: End Child Exportation and Trafficking in Haiti She introduced it on the Daily Bastardette yesterday thusly: I have launched a new blog site: End Child Exportation […]

This is a post written by my partner, Mike Doughney for his personal blog. It’s a big picture overview with some theoretical components. His about page written back in October 2007  is pretty much a mandatory backgrounder to understand what underlies the perspective he (and ultimately we, the two of us) bring to our adoption […]