American Missionary Charged With Kidnap In Haiti

It has been revealed that the head of the American missionaries sent to prison for alleged child abduction in Haiti has a very tainted past full of bad debts, divorce and unpaid wages back home. Laura Silsby began her not for profit organization “New Life Children's Refuge” at an address development in a neighborhood Boise, Idaho, that has not been finished yet. She established this in November. By December the $338,500 house was repossessed. Silsby, a divorced mother of small children was responsible for creating the Christian rescue mission that led to ten American Baptists attempting to take 33 Haitian children out of the country.

The ten Bapitists were subsequently arrested. Back in America, Silsby runs a shopping service on the world wide web. But court records demonstrate that she has been sued for wages that remain unpaid and had bad debts time and time again, and has had at least nine driving violations since 1997. A final 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 $22,01
6. According to court documents during 2009, Silsby told the plaintiff repeatedly that she had investors committed. That the money was being wired and also that investors were going to be the ones providing the funds. Silsby is currently sitting in a cell in Haiti and is due in Idaho for a civil trial on February 2
2. She is also due to appear in court in March to face a second civil suit involving an Idaho law firm for $4, 526 in unpaid fees.
Mallory Megan works for a debt collection agency. She also writes stories on business, finance, credit industry and debt collection .

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