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  • Colorado man sentenced to 210 years in prison for sexually abusing boys at his orphanage in Haiti

    05/24/2025 12:34:06 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 32 replies
    Post Millenial ^ | 5-23-25 | Hannah Nightingale
    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...
  • Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti Is Investigated (Baptists)

    02/12/2010 12:10:09 PM PST · by GovernmentShrinker · 35 replies · 538+ views
    New York Times ^ | February 11, 2010 | Marc Lacey and Ian Urbina
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls is also a legal adviser to the Americans charged with trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without permission. . . . Judge Saint-Vil also said he thought that the photo of the trafficking suspect in a Salvadoran police file appeared to be the same man he had met in court. He said he intended to begin his own investigation into whether a trafficking suspect had been working with...