After being held for ransom for nearly a month in Haiti, a Florida couple has been released following negotiations with their kidnappers, the Haitian National Police and the couple's family told ABC News.
Jean Dickens Toussiant and Abigail Toussaint are shown in this undated photo.for nearly a month in Haiti, a Florida couple was released Thursday after negotiations with their kidnappers, the Haitian National Police and the couple's family told ABC News.
"They stopped the bus at a stop and they asked for the Americans on the bus and their escorts to come off the bus and then they took them," Christie Desormes, the couple's niece,MORE: American couple being held at ransom in Haiti, family says: 'We told them not to go' The family paid the kidnappers' $6,000 demand but they then raised the price to $200,000 per person, according to Desormes.Toussaint and Imbert Family
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