Oranjestad, Aruba ? The mother of a missing Alabama teenager apologized Friday for any offense her remarks about the justice system here may have caused to Arubans.

Beth Holloway Twitty said she had been extremely distraught with the scarcity of clues to the fate of her daughter – Natalee Holloway – when she contended Tuesday that two brothers who have been tied to the case were guilty and should not have been freed from jail.

Her remarks were widely criticized as an unfair attack on the Dutch judicial system that governs this Caribbean protectorate of the Netherlands.

“I would like to apologize to the Aruban people and to the Aruban authorities if I or my family have offended you in any way,” Holloway Twitty told a news conference at her Aruban attorney’s office.

“It was never my intention to do so,” she said, adding that the Aruban people have been “extremely kind.”

Beth Holloway Twitty, mother of missing teen Natalee Holloway, and husband, Jug Twitty, leave their attorney's office in Oranjestad after giving a statement to the press Friday.

Holloway Twitty’s attorney, Benvinda de Sousa, said the apology was not inspired by threats from the attorneys of the two brothers to sue if she kept insisting their clients were guilty.

De Sousa said the mother will wait on the island in hopes that answers to her daughter’s fate will be found.

Tim Miller, director of Texas EquuSearch, a Dickenson, Texas-based volunteer group that has been here for more than two weeks doing ocean and land searches, said forensic diving specialists and two Navy SEAL divers who were volunteering vacation time were to arrive later Friday, bringing specialized search equipment.

But Miller said EquuSearch was planning to leave on Tuesday if nothing new was found. He acknowledged prospects for success were slim and said he was convinced the girl was not on the island.

“We are not any closer than we were 16 days ago when we got here,” Miller said.