A fire has swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, officials say.
A fire has swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, officials say.
About half of those who died were babies or toddlers and the others were roughly 10 or 11 years old, Louis said.Late Friday afternoon, police raided another home also run by the Church of Bible Understanding and took away several dozen children in a bus over protests from employees. "It could have been me," said Renadin Mondeline, a 22-year-old who lived in the home with her son, now 6, for about two years until she started making enough money as a street vendor to start renting her own place to live last year."These little girls inside were just like my baby.
Members of the religious group were selling expensive vintage building fixtures like banisters and chandeliers at high-end stores in New York and Los Angeles and using a portion of the profits to fund the homes.The Associated Press made an unannounced visit to the group's two homes, holding a total of 120 kids, in 2013 and found bunk beds with faded and worn mattresses crowded into dirty rooms. Sour air wafted through the bathrooms and stairwells.
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