The Final Two Baptists Will Be Freed

The two Baptist volunteers still in jail in Haiti will be freed and possibly could be released this week, the judge overseeing the case says. “We haven’t found anything that could suggest wrongdoing on the part of the Americans,” Judge Bernard Saint-Vil told Reuters Feb.18. “I think they could be released this week,” he added. Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, members of Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho, have been in jail since Jan. 29, when they and eight of their team members were arrested on charges of child kidnapping and criminal association when they tried to take 33 children out of the earthquake-ravaged country and to a makeshift orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

They should have been released weeks ago. In fact they never should have been arrested in the first place.