‘I hope to hug you in Heaven’: Nurse kidnapped with child in Haiti shares message for captors
Although American nurse Alix Dorsainvil knows she faced trauma when she and her daughter were kidnapped in Haiti last month, she would readily give care to her captors, she said in the first public comments since her release.
“I want you guys to know that everything I said during my time in captivity was sincere,” said Dorsainvil, addressing her abductors in Haitian Creole in a video on YouTube which her employer, El Roi Haiti shared on their website. “They were not the manipulative words of someone desperate to escape but simply the truth, especially when I told you my clinic doors are always open to you or anyone in need when you’re sick or wounded, without any problem.”
Nurse from New Hampshire and daughter freed nearly two weeks after kidnapping in Haiti
The New Hampshire native described her kidnappers as gangsters but said she hopes they will eventually put their violent ways behind them.
“I love you in Christ and one day I hope to hug you in heaven,” said Dorsainvil. “I understand that all of you are in a search for happiness, satisfaction, money, power and status to fill the void in your hearts. But I want you to know that those things will never truly satisfy you. They will never fill the void in your hearts. The only way for this hole to be filled is with the love of Jesus Christ.”
Dorsainvil says she was uplifted by what little news of support she was able to get word of while she was in captivity.
“While in there, a gangster came in and said ‘Nurse Alix, the people of Duvivier are marching for you.’ This encouraged me a lot because I knew you were standing with me during that difficult time,” Alix described.
Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped on July 27 near El Roi Haiti’s Port-au-Prince location. The mother and daughter were held for 16 days until their release on August 13.
Alix serves as the faith-based humanitarian group’s community health nurse and is married to the organization’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
The specific details of Dorsainvil’s kidnappers are not currently known at this point.
The U.S. Department of State issued a travel advisory to Haiti the same day of Dorsainvil’s kidnapping, telling Americans in the country to leave, citing kidnapping threats.
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