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Ten US missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 children and trying to spirit them out of earthquake-stricken Haiti will be released, a Haitian judge has decided.
The 10 have been in jail since they were stopped at Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic on January 29.
"The order will be to release them," said a source, who asked not to be named.
"One thing an investigating judge seeks in a criminal investigation is criminal intentions on the part of the people involved and there is nothing that shows that criminal intention on the part of the Americans."
The decision has not yet been made public.
The 10 Americans from the New Life Children's Refuge have claimed they harboured no ill-intent in taking the busload of children they thought were orphans across the border.
Some of the children's parents have since said that they had reached a deal to give away their kids.
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil interrogated the American church group members separately on Monday and Tuesday.
The case has made international headlines following the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, which killed around 230,000 people and left much of the country in ruins.
