( CNN ) -- Laura Silsby , the American missionary accused of trying to take nearly three dozen children out of Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake , has been freed from jail by a Haitian court , her defense attorney said Monday . Silsby is at the Port-au-Prince airport preparing to board an American Airlines flight to the United States , scheduled to depart at 5 p.m. ( 6 p.m . ET ) , said her lawyer , Chiller Roy . Roy declined to comment on reports that Silsby had been convicted and freed on time served . A Haitian prosecutor was seeking a six-month prison sentence in the case . Silsby was charged with trying to arrange `` irregular travel '' for 33 children she planned to take to an orphanage she was building in the Dominican Republic . She was jailed January 29 , along with nine other American missionaries who were later released . Last month , Judge Bernard Saint-Vil dropped kidnapping and criminal association charges against Silsby and the other missionaries . They were stopped while trying to take the children out of the country ; authorities said the group did n't have proper legal documentation . Silsby originally said the children were orphaned or abandoned , but the Haitian government and the orphans ' charity SOS Children say that all have at least one living parent . Some said they placed their children in Silsby 's care because that was the only way they knew to ensure a better quality of life for them . The 10 Americans , many of whom belong to a Baptist church in Idaho , have said they were trying to help the children get to a safe place after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened cities and towns in Haiti . CNN 's Lonzo Cook contributed to this report .
Silsby freed from jail by a Baptist court , her defense attorney says . United States missionary was accused of trying to take 10 children out of Haiti after quake . Laura Silsby scheduled to fly back to United States around 6 p.m . ET .