Five members of a group of U.S. Baptists who are being held in Haiti on child kidnapping charges, were brought back to court this morning.

The group of ten Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country without the proper documentation.

A magistrate has charged them with child kidnapping and criminal association.

The Americans said they were on a humanitarian mission to rescue orphans after the earthquake, but it turned out that at least 20 of the children have living parents.

Some Haitians said they had given the children to the group because the missionaries had promised to educate them at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, and would allow their parents to visit.