Laura Silsby, the last remaining Baptist volunteer still in a Haiti prison, entered her 75th straight day in jail Wednesday.
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Last week, one of Silsby's team members, Paul Thompson, released a statement urging concerned citizens to pray for Silsby and also to contact their senators, the State Department and the White House and urge them to work for her release. Senators' numbers are available through Senate.gov. The State Department switchboard number is 202-647-4000, and the White House comment line is 202-456-1111.
Silsby, Thompson and eight others were arrested Jan. 30 in Haiti on charges of child kidnapping because they allegedly did not have the proper documentation to cross into the Dominican Republic, where they were taking about 30 children to an orphanage that was being started. The 10 contend they were innocent and were simply trying to help children and that they had the paperwork Haiti officials told them to have.
Thompson and the others have been released and are back in the United States.
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SOURCE: Baptist Press
