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The De­part­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) says a man from the state of Col­orado. was sen­tenced on Fri­day to 210 years in prison for sex­u­al­ly abus­ing sev­er­al chil­dren at the or­phan­age he found­ed and di­rect­ed in Haiti.

Ac­cord­ing to court doc­u­ments and ev­i­dence pre­sent­ed at tri­al, Michael Karl Geilen­feld, 73, most re­cent­ly of Lit­tle­ton, Col­orado, found­ed St. Joseph’s Home for Boys — a home for or­phaned, im­pov­er­ished, and oth­er­wise vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren in Haiti — in 1985 and op­er­at­ed it for more than two decades.

Dur­ing this time, the DOJ said Geilen­feld re­peat­ed­ly trav­eled from the Unit­ed States to Haiti, “where he sex­u­al­ly abused the boys en­trust­ed to his care.: