HAITI
Haitian-Caribbean News Network
September 6, 2014
By Joseph Guyler C. Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) — Haitian police, under the authority of the capital’s top prosecutor, arrested and detained on Friday a US citizen accused of abusing children, housed in an orphanage he founded years ago, in the Caribbean country, officials say.
Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 62, was handcuffed at the Saint-Joseph orphanage in the Delmas district and taken to police custody on Friday behind a police pickup truck along with one of his aides, Lamarre Williams, who had been working for Geilenfeld for about six years, now.
The Port-au-Prince’s top prosecutor, Kerson Charles Darius, said Geilenfeld, who had been the object of numerous complaints for child abuses and other criminal activities, will be interrogated and prosecuted on crimes on minors and criminal conspiracy charges.
“Several people have filed complaints about Mr. Geilenfeld and about what is going on in this place,” Darius told the Haitian-Caribbean News Network (HCNN) on Friday as he left the orphanage where Geilenfeld was arrested.
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