Haiti, led by its attorney general, denied the reports. Another Haitian official, Judge Bernard Saint-Vil — the presiding judge in the case — told AP no decision had been made.

A Baptist pastor who spent nearly three weeks in a Haiti jail says it “makes no sense” for him and eight other volunteers to be freed while the group’s 10th member and group leader, Laura Silsby, remains in jail.

Paul Thompson, pastor of Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, made the comments one week after reports first circulated that all charges had been dropped against the nine freed Americans. Haiti officials quickly denied the reports, saying the charges still stood.

The 10 were arrested in late January and charged with child kidnapping, allegedly because they did not have the proper documents to take 33 children to an orphanage being started in the Dominican Republic. The group says they had the paperwork Haiti officials told them to have.

Although Thompson and eight others were released and allowed to fly back to the United States, the charges technically still stood when they left the earthquake-ravaged country.

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