US missionary convicted in Haiti, but free to go
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The last of 10 Americans detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti following the January 12 earthquake was released Monday after a judge convicted her and sentenced her to the time she had already served in jail.
Laura Silsby, the organizer of the ill-fated effort to take the children to an orphanage being set up in the Dominican Republic, returned to her jail cell briefly to retrieve belongings before quickly heading to the Port-au-Prince airport. (AP)