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A Colorado man who founded and directed an orphanage in Haiti has been sentenced to 210 years in prison for sexually abusing children there. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, founded the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in 1985, which housed orphaned, impoverished, and vulnerable children in Haiti. In the over two decades that Geilenfeld operated the orphanage, the Department of Justice said that he "repeatedly traveled from the United States to Haiti, where he sexually abused the boys entrusted to his care." The children also suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Geilenfeld. A federal jury convicted Geilenfeld in...

Love, solidarity, understanding, responsibility, and education are some of the words that may describe the work done by the Manuel Fernández Juncos Boys' Home located in [the] Miramar [section of San Juan]. This not-for-profit institution which houses and provides support services to boys 8 to 18 years of age who have been victims of abuse, abandonment, and neglect is known to be a helping hand to all the boys and young men who live there through education, sports, work, and discipline. "I'm fine. Very happy. Being in this home has been a very beautiful experience because I have done so...