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The smugglers take the opportunity to earn money by smuggling children from Haiti.

There have already been speculations on the adoption of orphans in Haiti and why that may not be such a good idea.

The failed attempt by the New Life Children Refuge to take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic has shed the light on the activities of groups that disregard the rules of international adoption. Haitian authorities are justifiably feared that chaos emerged due to the devastating earthquake on January 12th, which killed about 200.000 people, could open an opportunity for traffickers to reach children.

The authorities in Haiti have explored 10 American missionaries accused of illegally trying to bring children from the Caribbean country.

- We have information that some people are trying to steal children – said Minister of Communications, Marie-Laurence Laseg.

But baptist missionaries deny these accusations and claim that they have onlytried to help orphans and transfer them to an orphanage which was founded in the Dominican Republic. Even before the earthquake, Haiti was known as a nation of orphans, and now there are countless more children without parents.

In the past few weeks, children welfare organizations have been flooded with offers from families in the US and elsewhere willing to adopt children.

This is not only against the law, but it could also be recognized as taking advantage of people in a lousy situation.

Haitian Social Affairs Minister said: “This is abduction, not adoption.”