DENVER ( KDVR ) — A Colorado man was convicted of sexually abusing boys at an orphanage he founded in Haiti.
The U.S. Department of Justice said a federal jury in Miami convicted 73-year-old Michael Karl Geilenfeld of Littleton. The department said Geilenfeld founded St. Joseph’s Home for Boys, a home for orphaned and impoverished children in Haiti, in 1985.
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During his more than two decades of operation, the justice department said Geilenfeld would travel between the U.S. and Haiti and would sexually abuse the boys in his care.
On Thursday, the Miami 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…