Report: 13 Children Killed in Haiti Orphanage Fire

[TomSea]

Report: 13 Children Killed in Haiti Orphanage Fire - Fire Engineering
2.14.20

By EVENS SANON, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and BEN FOX Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A fire swept through an orphanage run by a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit group in Haiti, killing 13 children, including infants, health care workers said Friday.

Rose-Marie Louis told The Associated Press that she saw 13 children’s bodies being carried out of the Orphanage of the Church of Bible Understanding in the Kenscoff area outside Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital.

Marie-Sonia Chery, a nurse at the nearby Baptist Mission Hospital, confirmed that 13 boys and girls had died.

Read more at: https://www.fireengineering.com/2020/02/14/484166/report-13-children-killed-in-haiti-orphanage-fire/

ABC coverage, https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/haitian-orphanage-worker-13-children-die-fire-68984807

So, the fire just did happen, US not-for-profit organization ran it.

[PeteS in CA]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Bible_Understanding :

In November 2013, the AP investigated claims that the church was at fault for running sub-standard housing for orphans in Haiti after the two homes the church runs received a failing grade from the Haitian agency that monitors orphanages. "...Even though they claim in IRS filings to be spending around $2.5 million annually, the home for boys and girls was so dirty and overcrowded during recent inspections that the government said it shouldn't remain open."

CoBU is a cult in the older sense of the word, if not the newer connotation as well. They are followers of a particular leader who claims, personally, to be the sole authority on understanding the Bible. Not unlike Charles Taze Russell, except that Russell did not require followers to cut off ties to family and friends as CoBU apparently does. Maybe more similar to the Children of God cult and Mo Berg.