{"id":58473,"date":"2025-02-21T16:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=58473"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:44:42","slug":"colorado-man-convicted-for-sexually-abusing-boys-at-a-haiti-orphanage-that-he-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=58473","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Man Convicted for Sexually Abusing Boys at a Haiti Orphanage That He Founded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6373 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer's back with &quot;POLICE HSI&quot; text.\" width=\"383\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Homeland-Security-Investigations.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/>A federal jury in Miami convicted a Colorado man this week for sexually abusing numerous boys at the orphanage he founded and directed in Haiti, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, most recently of Littleton, founded St. Joseph\u2019s Home for Boys \u2014 a home for orphaned, impoverished, and otherwise vulnerable children in Haiti \u2014 in 1985 and operated it for more than two decades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">During this time, Geilenfeld repeatedly traveled from the United States to Haiti, where he sexually abused the boys entrusted to his care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The jury convicted Geilenfeld of 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 between 2005 and 2010. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56806\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/haiti_1719267841.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56806\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/haiti_1719267841.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-229 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FBI-300x165.png\" alt=\"&quot;Goon Squad&quot; Shooter Sentenced to 20 Years for Firing at Police\" width=\"455\" height=\"250\" \/>Each of the six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place relates to a particular victim who was a child at the time of the offense. Each of the six victims testified about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Geilenfeld, as did four other victims who were not the subject of the charged offenses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Geilenfeld is scheduled to be sentenced on May 5. He faces up to 30 years in prison on each of the seven total counts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Miami and the FBI Miami Field Office investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Trial Attorneys Jessica L. Urban and Eduardo Palomo of the Criminal Division\u2019s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Lacee Monk for the Southern District of Florida are prosecuting the case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury in Miami convicted a Colorado man this week for sexually abusing numerous boys at the orphanage he founded and directed in Haiti, officials stated. 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