BREAKING: An American woman and her young child have been freed and are safe after being kidnapped in Haiti on July 27, organization says.
In this undated photo provided by El Roi Haiti, Alix Dorsainvil, right, poses with her husband, Sandro Dorsainvil. Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, July 27, the organization said.American woman Alix Dorsainvil and her young child have been freed and are saferoughly two weeks ago, according to a statement from El Roi Haiti, the nonprofit where she worked.
Dorsainvil and her young daughter were taken from the El Roi compound outside of Port-au-Prince on July 27 and had been held since then. Negotiations to free her started shortly after she was taken, according to a Haitian law enforcement source. The kidnapping came as the U.S. Department of State ordered the evacuation of family members of U.S. government employees and non-emergency U.S. government employees in Haiti on July 27. The U.S. government's travel advisory for Haiti is "do not travel due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure," according to the State Department.
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