PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti AP – Haitian and U.S. officials are considering a trial in the United States for 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without documents or permission.

The aborted Baptist “rescue mission” has become a major distraction for a crippled government trying to provide basic life support to millions of earthquake survivors. Haiti’s courts and justice ministry were destroyed in the disaster, which also killed many judicial officials.