Overview

• The 73-year-old Michael Karl Geilenfeld was handed a 210-year prison term on May 23 for sexually, physically and emotionally abusing children at St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Haiti.
• A federal jury convicted Geilenfeld in February on one count of traveling in foreign commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct and six counts of illicit conduct in a foreign country.
• Six former residents testified during the trial about enduring sustained abuse under Geilenfeld’s authority at the orphanage he claimed to run as humanitarian work.
• U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents discovered photographs of victims during a 2019 airport inspection, evidence prosecutors say Geilenfeld intended to use to intimidate survivors.
• Prosecutors detailed how Geilenfeld operated multiple orphanages in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and used manipulation tactics to secure financial support for his institutions.