And on the assumption that the report is fundamentally correct, although we should have some reservations about that, it raises far more complex subjects.

Some parents wanted to give their children away and would do it again, for the good of the child. Some didn’t know the children had been taken. Some parents are colluding to kidnap their and other children.

Haiti is an appalling tragedy, and was so before the earthquake and now it is many, many times worse. Estimates of orpaned children run into the hundreds of thousands.

Are we, sitting in relative comfort in Western Europe ( and elsewhere of course ) able to judge, dispassionately, the actions of these people in that god forsaken country?