http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/world/americas/1194811622209/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/world/americas/02orphans.html?ref=world
In lecture today we discussed what would cause people to perform altruistic acts under the bystander intervention model. In this article/video, 10 U.S. citizens from a church group were detained by the Haitian government for trying to take 33 orphaned kids (from the earthquake)across the border w/o proper documentation. The Haitian government believe these individuals were trying to take the kids across for child trafficking purposes. These individuals after noticing the event and seeing that these children were orphaned as an emergency, proceeded to assume responsibility (take them back to U.S. so they can be in a better environment) but this may have faltered on the appropriate form of assistance (not taking the kids across w/proper documentation). When implementing their decision to "help the kids out," what may have been perceived as a non-risk/altruistic scenario of helping children ended up becoming a risk to them as they landed in jail.
Zainab M. Deen
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