Missionaries Charged With Kidnap In Haiti

It was revealed recently that the leader of the American missionaries that are now locked up for alleged child abduction in Haiti has a very shameful past full of bad debts, divorce and unpaid wages back home.

Laura Silsby founded her "New Life Children's Refuge" charity at an address development in a suburb of Boise, Idaho, that has not even been finished yet. She established this in November. By December the $338,500 house was repossessed.

Silsby, divorced mother of young children was responsible for organizing the Christian rescue mission that led to ten American Baptists trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country. The ten Bapitists were subsequently arrested.

Back in America, Silsby created a shopping service online. But court records illustrate that she has been sued for unpaid wages and massive debts time and time again, and has had at least nine driving violations since 1997. A total of fourteen claims totaling $38,100 were filed against Silsby's company over the past two years.

The Idaho department of labor came to the conclusion that she owed $30,620 to employees and in is planning to fine her $4000. The company's old marketing director launched a law suit against Ms Silsby and PersonalShopper.com in October. She claims that she was scammed out of five months of unpaid wages for a grand total of $22,016.

According to the law suit's documents during 2009, Silsby repeatedly told the plaintiff that she had investors committed. She claimed that the money was being wired and also that investors were going to be the ones providing the funds.

Silsby is now sitting in a holding cell in Haiti but she is due to be back in Idaho for a civil trial on February 22. Additionally, she is due to appear in court in March to face a second civil suit involving an Idaho law firm for $4, 526 in unpaid fees.