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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Twelve Haitian children who were airlift to the United States are still residents of a Roman Catholic institution near Pittsburgh. Six months after the chaotic earthquake in Haiti the childrens fate are still in limbo while United States and Haitian authorities struggle to determine which nation should be their permanent home.
Unlike some 1 100 other children flown out of Haiti to the United States after the January 12 earthquake, the youths at the Holy Family Institute in Emsworth, Pennsylvania, were not part of the adoption process prior to the quake and according to some legal experts shouldnt have been eligible for the emergency programme.
There are American families eager to adopt them now, including some whove been screened and approved by adoption agencies. But theres been little in the way of public updates on the case as federal agencies, the Haitian government and the International Red Cross try to determine whether the 12 should be put up for United States adoption or returned to relatives in Haiti.
According to staffers of the State Department the case is very complex and there is no timeframe for resolving it as efforts continue to verify information about the childrens families in Haiti, this.
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