Haitian prosecutors to rule over children case

The Haitian prosecutors will decide whether to charge 10 US citizens, detained since they attempted to sneak a group of children out of the quake-hit country.

“I’ve carried out the preliminary investigations and have sent the case to the prosecution service,” Judge Isai Pierre-Louise told AFP on Wednesday.

“It will be up to the prosecutors now to decide how the case should proceed,” he added, saying the hearing had been set for Thursday.

The 10 Americans, five men and five women, were detained last week after they tried to cross into neighboring Dominican Republic with a busload of 33 children aged between two months and 12 years old.