Comments
Print
ShareCHICAGO — An American missionary released after facing child kidnapping charges in Haiti says he slept on a concrete floor while in jail and received hot meals.
Jim Allen spoke to Oprah Winfrey on her talk show Friday via satellite from Amarillo, Texas. He told Winfrey that being jailed "was hard" but he thinks his jailers treated him "as well as they could with what they had."
Allen says, after Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake, the missionaries planned to take the children to a temporary orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
The missionaries still face possible charges. Their leader and her former nanny remain in a Port au Prince jail. The missionaries have denied the trafficking charges.
The group was caught Jan. 29 trying to take the children out of Haiti without adoption certificates.
Loading...
Comments
Readers are solely responsible for the content of the comments they post here. Comments are subject to the site's terms and conditions of use and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or approval of the Houston Chronicle. Readers whose comments violate the terms of use may have their comments removed or all of their content blocked from viewing by other users without notification.