Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The Dominican consul general Wednesday rejected the claim from an American church leader that she thought her paperwork was in order when she attempted to take 33 Haitian children out of the country, saying he had told her it was not. "I warned her, I said as soon as you get there without the proper documents, you are going to get into trouble, because they are going to accuse you, because you have the intent to pass the border without the proper papers and they are going to accuse you with kids trafficking," Carlos Castillo said he told the group's leader, Laura Silsby, during a meeting Friday.
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Dominican consul general: "This woman knew what she was trying to do was not legal."
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Laura Silsby, 9 other Americans turned back from border with 33 Haitian children
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The U.S. church group is being held by Haitian authorities
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Haiti and Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola
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