Haiti police detain US orphanage founder on abuse allegations
Haiti – A U.S. man who founded a boys'
orphanage in Haiti nearly two decades ago was arrested Friday following
abuse allegations, authorities said. Michael Karl
Geilenfeld, 62, was detained at the orphanage on suspicion of charges of
indecent assault and criminal conspiracy, Port-au-Prince General
Prosecutor Charles Kerson told The Associated Press. Geilenfeld
was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police pickup truck and
taken to a police station in the Petionville district of Port-au-Prince.
He declined comment to an AP journalist before he was taken away, as
did a manager of the orphanage who rode with Geilenfeld to the station.
