A Miami federal jury has convicted a Colorado man for sexually abusing boys at an orphanage he founded and directed in Haiti, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
The department said 73-year-old Michael Karl Geilenfeld, who most recently lived in Littleton, founded St. Joseph’s Home for Boys – a home for orphaned and impoverished children in Haiti – in 1985, and operated the center for over two decades.
According to court documents and evidence presented during his trial, Geilenfeld repeatedly traveled between the United States and Haiti, where he sexually abused the boys entrusted to his orphanage, the department said.
On Feb. 20, a jury convicted Geilenfeld on one count of traveling 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 for incidents between 2005 and 2010.
The six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct each related to a different victim who was a child at the time of the offense, the DOJ said. (KRDO)
