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[–] think- 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

He has been accused of sexual abuse for years:

Gay orphanage founder loses Haiti facility amid sex abuse allegations

November 5, 2015

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian authorities on Thursday closed an orphanage for boys founded three decades ago by a U.S. citizen facing accusations he sexually abused children in his care.

Police padlocked the doors at the St. Joseph Home for Boys in the Delmas 91 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. About two-dozen shouting men tried to prevent the closure, but a government agent scattered the group by firing a gun into the air.

Police and judicial officials locked the main door of the orphanage before the men, many of them employees and former residents of the home, returned to try again to stop the shutdown.

Haitian investigators looking into new allegations of sexual abuse against orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld have sought to detain him in recent days but have been unable to locate the Iowa native and former Catholic brother. He has had travel restrictions placed on him by Haitian authorities but it is not known if they seized his U.S. passport.

In an Oct. 29 court order seen by The Associated Press, Judge Bernard Sainvil allowed all of Geilenfeld’s charitable operations in Haiti to be shuttered by authorities due to allegations of “rape and sexual aggression.”

https://www. washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/5/haiti-officials-shut-down-orphanage-founded-by-us-/

http://archive.fo/T7t3H