WESTON (MA)
Boston Globe
By Travis Andersen
| Globe Staff
July 18, 2012
A former student at a school for disadvantaged youth in Haiti has joined 22 other former pupils in filing a lawsuit against a Jesuit priest now living in Weston and others, alleging the defendants did nothing to stop the school’s former director from sexually abusing them over a 10-year period.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut, a man living in Haiti who is currently in his early 20s says the Rev. Paul E. Carrier, Fairfield University, and other defendants are liable for the abuse he suffered at the hands of Douglas Perlitz, 42, former director of Project Pierre Toussaint in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.
The Globe does not name alleged victims of sexual abuse unless they are willing to have their names published.
According to the man’s complaint, Carrier, a former Fairfield chaplain, the university, and other defendants established the school, provided funding for it, and ignored signs of Perlitz’s actions.
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