!["[W]e were just trying to do the right thing," says Laura Silsby, one of 10 Americans arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on charges of child trafficking. Nicole Lankford (left) and Carla Thompson were among the detainees. (Associated Press)](http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2010/02/01/20100131-204052-pic-409151883_s640x407.jpg?e712abc55b0acf214be6de55fe2279c1a56d6379)
“[W]e were just trying to do the right thing,” says Laura Silsby, one of 10 Americans arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on charges of child trafficking. Nicole Lankford (left) and Carla Thompson were among the detainees. (Associated Press)PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Dominican lawyer for 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti says he has fired their local Haitian counsel.
Jorge Puello tells The Associated Press he fired Edwin Coq late Friday because the Haitian attorney asked for $60,000 to use to bribe the missionaries’ way out of jail. Coq denies that. He says the amount was the fee for his legal work.
Puello, a lawyer in the Dominican Republic, was hired by relatives of the missionaries after they were arrested and he retained Coq to represent them before a Haitian magistrate.
Coq told the AP before Puello’s comment Saturday that he was preparing to resign because families of the detainees hadn’t sent him promised money and maligned him.
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