Founder of Haitian orphanage convicted for sexually abusing boys in his care

The Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) says a man who found­ed a home for im­pov­er­ished chil­dren in Haiti, is sched­uled to be sen­tenced on May 5 and faces a max­i­mum penal­ty of 30 years in prison on each of the sev­en to­tal counts of sex­u­al­ly abus­ing boys at the fa­cil­i­ty.

“This case was brought as part of Project Safe Child­hood, a na­tion­wide ini­tia­tive to com­bat the epi­dem­ic of child sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion and abuse launched in May 2006 by the De­part­ment of Jus­tice,” the DOJ said.

It said that a fed­er­al ju­ry in Mi­a­mi has con­vict­ed Michael Karl Geilen­feld, 73, from Col­orado for sex­u­al­ly abus­ing nu­mer­ous boys at the or­phan­age he found­ed and di­rect­ed in Haiti.