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Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Javier Galeano, AP Laura Silsby of Meridian, Idaho, is escorted to her court appearance in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 8. By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Newly appointed lawyers for the U.S. missionaries accused of child trafficking emerged from a court hearing Monday and said their clients violated no laws when they tried to rescue 33 Haitian children. "The Americans acted with heart," lawyer Aviol Fleurant said outside a courthouse in the capital. "They had no intention to violate the Haitian law." Fleurant said the missionaries "have a document" authorizing them to take the children and he...

 

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