American Missionary Charged With Kidnap In Haiti
Saturday, February 20th, 2010It was revealed recently that the head of the American missionaries sent to jail for alleged child abduction in Haiti has quite a corrupt past plagued by 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 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 determined that $30,620 was owed to employees and in addition is imposed a $4000 fine. The company’s former marketing director went to court against Ms Silsby and PersonalShopper.com in October. She claims that she was jipped out of five months of unpaid wages for a grand total of $22,016.
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 22. 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 company. Also she does articles on business, finance, consumer spending and debt collection.
