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(CMC) — The United States 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, 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 travelled from the United States to Haiti, “where he sexually abused the boys entrusted to his care”.
The DOJ said he also “physically and emotionally abused the children in the home, including through physical assault and other forms of punishment”.
In February 2025, a federal jury convicted Geilenfeld of one count of travelling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, and six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place between 2005 and 2010.
Each of the six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct relates to a separate victim who was a child at the time of the offence.
At trial, the DOJ said the six victims testified about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Geilenfeld and the devastating impact it had on them, as did other victims — now adults — who were not the subject of the charged offences.
The victims and witnesses also described the physical abuse Geilenfeld inflicted on his victims and the manipulation that he employed to keep his operation running and financially supported by others.
“The defendant’s sustained sexual, physical, and emotional abuse of some of the most vulnerable children in the world is intolerable,” said Matthew Galeotti, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This prosecution demonstrates the department’s commitment to securing justice for children harmed by criminals who travel abroad from the United States to commit their crimes”.
“We thank our partners for working with us to ensure that the defendant can never harm another child,” he added.
Jose Perez, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, said: “This sentencing marks the end of a case built on the courage of survivors and the dedication of investigators. For decades, Geilenfeld used his position of trust and access to exploit vulnerable children under the guise of humanitarian work”.
“We are grateful to those victims who came forward to report their abuse. The FBI is committed to pursuing those who commit crimes against children no matter where they occur or how long ago they were committed,” Perez added.
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THANK GOD THE REIGN OF TERROR, PERVERSION, & DECEPTION OF THAT DISGUSTING SOB HAS COME TO AN END, LET HIS DAMNATION BE A STARK WARNING TO ALL THE PREDATORS, PERVERTS & PEDOPHILES OUT THERE WHO THINK THEY CAN PUT THEIR FILTHY FINGERS ON PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THE VULNERABLE, WITH IMPUNITY. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?” Isaiah 29:15
Now this is what u call sentence, u wicked son of a bitch,hope they feed u once a week with bread n water……God is going to expose them one after the other.
He was doing it under the nose of the church, the one and same that have been abusing boys and others for decades as Fathers, Priests and they did nothing but to deny the allegations which began decades ago. St. Joseph’s Home for Boys and its Board of Directors protected this monster as well.
He’s the perfect candidate for Chemical Castration. He has to be protecting others.