PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian officials said Monday that they were discussing with the U.S. Embassy whether to send to the United States the 10 Americans arrested for trying to take 33 children out of the country.

A lawyer representing the Idaho Baptists, meanwhile, said the 10 were being subjected to “inhumane” treatment and one of them, a diabetic, was hospitalized on Sunday after nearly fainting.

The Americans were to appear before a Haitian judge on Monday and may have to face justice in the United States because this poor Caribbean nation’s court system was crippled in a catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake, Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelin Lassegue, told reporters.

While stressing that no charges have been filed, Lassegue said that “in any case they will be judged.... That’s what is important.”

Lassegue said an undetermined number of the children have moth.
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