US missionary tells Winfrey that he slept on concrete floor but Haiti jailers treated him well
By APFriday, February 19, 2010
Missionary: Jail was hard, but I was treated well
CHICAGO — An American missionary freed after facing child kidnapping charges in Haiti says he slept on a concrete floor while in jail and received hot meals.
Jim Allen spoke to Oprah Winfrey on her talk show Friday via satellite from Amarillo, Texas. He told Winfrey that being jailed “was hard” but he thinks his jailers treated him “as well as they could with what they had.”
Allen says that after Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake, the missionaries planned to take the children to a temporary orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
The missionaries still face possible charges. Their leader and her former nanny remain in a Port-au-Prince jail. The missionaries have denied the trafficking charges.
The group was caught Jan. 29 trying to take the children out of Haiti without adoption certificates.
