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David Pierre
Congratulations to Michael Geilenfeld, Executive Director of St. Joseph Family of Haiti, to whom a jury awarded $14.7 million after “online activist” Paul Kendrick “endlessly defamed, bullied, and harassed” him by claiming that Geilenfeld had repeatedly abused children in his care in Haiti.
Geilenfeld is a former Brother with the Missionaries of Charity Brothers, created by Mother Teresa. Since 1994, Geilenfeld has operated St. Joseph Family of Haiti as a full-time residence and school for Haitian children with physical and mental disabilities, providing these needy children permanent residence, room and board, meals, physical therapy, recreational therapy, formal education, religious education, and more.
As a result of Kendrick’s defamation campaign against Geilenfeld and Hearts With Haiti – the organization that raised funds for St. Joseph’s – reliable donors ceased supporting Geilenfeld’s operation out of fear that their money might be supporting child abuse. The damage that Kendrick wreaked was utterly devastating.
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