Saturday, March 10, 2012

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson asked to cancel appearance at Fairfield University

March 11, 2012

Most Rev. Geoffrey Robinson
Saint Joseph's Presbytery
126 Liverpool Road
Enfield
NSW
2136
Australia

Dear Bishop Robinson,

I am writing to strongly urge you not to set foot on the Fairfield University campus later this month but, instead, to select another venue for your scheduled appearance in Fairfield, Connecticut on March 24, 2012.

In your book, Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus, you wrote, "I am convinced that if the pope had spoken clearly at the beginning of the revelations, inviting victims to come forward so that the whole truth, however terrible, might be known and confronted, and firmly directing that all members of the church should respond with openness, humility, honesty and compassion, consistently putting victims before the good name of the church, the entire response of the church would have been far better."

I can assure you, Bishop Robinson, that having said these words, you will know instinctively that your presence at Fairfield University will be an insult to an entire group of courageous child sexual abuse victims in Haiti who have been neglected, rejected and ostracized by Fairfield University and Jesuit officials - and whose pursuit of truth and justice has not been supported in any way by your hosts; members of Bridgeport Voice of the Faithful and Dr. Paul Lakeland, Chair of Fairfield University's Center for Catholic Studies.

Each time I asked for just ten minutes, and even though Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) is sponsored and supported by organizations that are right in their own back yard, VOTF Conference officials would not allow me to speak at either of the past two conferences about the horrific plight of the abuse victims in Haiti. The kids were in desperate need of emotional and practical support, including food, clothing, shelter, and tuition for school.

In December 2010, Fairfield University alumnus, Douglas Perlitz, the founder and former executive director of Project Pierre Toussaint in Haiti, was sentenced in Connecticut federal court to almost 20 years in prison for sexually abusing boys who were under his care.

Project Pierre Toussaint was supported and funded by many Catholic organizations including the Order of Malta, the Roman catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, the Knights of Columbus, Fairfield University, the New England Society of Jesus and the Haiti Fund, Inc., a Connecticut based non-profit whose chairman, Rev. paul Carrier, S.J., was the long-time campus ministry director at Fairfield University.

In August 2007, a Haitian journalist by the name of Cyrus Sibert, listened with concern to the victims' cries for help and, at great danger to the victims and himself, Cyrus began to report about the abuse on his blog and radio program in Cap-Haitien.

In response, Fairfield University and New England Jesuit officials ran as fast and as far away from the hurting victims as they could. Instead of offering comfort and support to the frightened victims, Father Carrier and eleven other prominent and influential Fairfield County Catholics wrote a letter to the Haiti school's donors calling the victims' liars.

Donations dried up, the school closed and the victims and other displaced students were forced back onto the streets of Cap-Haitien with no food or shelter.

In past years, Fairfield University bragged about and promoted itself as a partner in the humanitarian work being accomplished at PPT by awarding Perlitz an honorary doctor of laws degree and a "Magis' alumni award for his service to the poor and needy in Haiti.

At the present time, though, three high powered law firms, hired by Fairfield University and the New England Jesuits, are engaged in hardball legal tactics against twenty-one homeless Haitian street children who have filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in Connecticut seeking fair and just reparations for the harms and injuries inflicted upon them as a result of their abuse and the negligence and failure to protect them by a group of responsible parties.

Two days ago, the local sheriff served me with a subpoena from Father Carrier's lawyers who are ordering me to produce confidential emails I may have shared with the boys in Haiti who were abused.

It's not complicated, Bishop Robinson. The civil lawsuit enables these poor and vulnerable Haitian kids to be placed on a level playing field with the powerful and influential people and institutions who are doing everything they can right now to avoid responsibility and accountability for their roles in the coverup of sexual abuse of children at PPT.

But, when all is said and done, when Fairfield University, the Jesuits and Father Carrier and the other parties have exhausted their legal filings, their legal objections and their legal maneuvering (technicalities and loopholes), everyone will be forced to gather together in a federal courtroom, face to face with the abuse victims, take an oath to tell the truth, and then we'll begin to sort out who knew what, when they knew it and how and why it was possible for so many children to be raped and sodomized for so many years under everyone's watch.

There's so much I could tell you, Bishop Robinson. I have met with the victims in Haiti on two occasions. It would break your heart to hear their stories. It will also break your heart to know that so many people who advertise themselves as devout Christians and/or practicing Catholics, including your hosts and most of the planned attendees, have avoided and neglected these poorest of the poor children in their time of need.

The Jesuits taught me that the service of my faith must include the promotion of justice. When the rubber hit the road, though, their words were meaningless.

I have written extensively about the trauma, pain, suffering and needs of these victims. These are brave and courageous kids whose lives have been permanently altered by the violence of the abuse perpetrated upon them. These are kids who get up everyday with nothing to eat, having slept with one eye open in an abandoned building or on a rooftop. During the past couple of years, a small group of victims' advocates in New England has raised money to help provide the boys with a weekly ration of rice and spaghetti, books, school uniforms and tuition payments. It is important, we think, to show these kids that there are people who care about them. After all, there is no one to tuck these boys into bed at night and tell them they are loved.

I beg you, Bishop Robinson to stand in solidarity with these struggling abuse victims by instructing your hosts to immediately locate another venue for your March 24th appearance.

By refusing to speak at Fairfield University, an institution that is not responding in good faith "with openness, humility, honesty and compassion, (by) consistently putting victims before the good name of the church" (your words) you will, with all due respect, be putting your money where your mouth is.

Sincerely,
Paul Kendrick
Freeport, Maine
Fairfield University, 72
207-838-1319 (cell)

BishopAccountability.org


www.bishopaccountability.org/complaints/Haiti/

Friday, March 9, 2012

President of Road to Recovery responds to Jesuit intimidation of Haitian child sexual abuse victims

Road to Recovery, Inc.
P.O. Box 279
Livingston, New Jersey 07039
862-368-2800
roberthoatson@gmail.com

UNCONSCIONABLE TREATMENT OF HAITIAN ABUSE VICTIMS’ ADVOCATE BY LAWYER FOR JESUIT PRIEST

Paul Kendrick of Freeport, Maine, who has championed the cause of dozens of sexual abuse victims of Doug Perlitz at the Haiti-based Project Pierre Toussaint, has been served with a subpoena by the lawyer for Fr. Paul Carrier, SJ, one of the principals of the project, former Campus Minister of Fairfield University and Chairperson of the Haiti Fund where the project was birthed and sustained.

The subpoena commands Mr. Kendrick to produce documents, electronically stored information, etc. regarding communications between the abuse victims and Mr. Kendrick in a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 Haitian victims in Connecticut federal court.

Road to Recovery wishes to express its support of Paul Kendrick in his confidential and protected work with courageous and damaged Haiti victims, and its outrage over the request of a lawyer to secure information from those victims and their advocate.

Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D.
Co-founder and President

Jesuits employ intimidation tactics against Haitian child sexual abuse victims

For immediate release:
March 8, 2012

For more information:
Michael Sweatt, Portland, Maine, 207-831-3791

INTIMIDATION TACTICS BEING EMPLOYED AGAINST ADVOCATE FOR HAITIAN CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS BY A BOSTON LAW FIRM REPRESENTING JESUIT PRIEST, REV. PAUL CARRIER, S.J.

FATHER CARRIER IS THE FORMER CAMPUS MINISTRY DIRECTOR AT FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY AND THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE HAITI FUND, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
for the District of Maine

JOSEPH JEAN-CHARLES, et al.,
----------------------------------------
Plaintiff
v.

DOUGLAS PERLITZ, et al.,
----------------------------------------
Defendant

Paul Kendrick of Freeport, Maine was served with a subpoena today in which he is "commanded" to produce documents, electronically stored information, etc. regarding private communications between Kendrick and the abuse victims in a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 Haitian child sexual abuse victims in Connecticut federal court.

The subpoena was issued by Attorney Theodore Folkman of the Boston law firm, Murphy & King.

Murphy & King represents Jesuit priest, Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J. Carrier is the former director of Campus Ministry at Fairfield University.

Kendrick is a 1972 graduate of Fairfield University and has traveled to Haiti six times in the past nine years.

(See a full explanation of the lawsuit in the letter below)

#13 in the subpoena to Kendrick states: ''All documents concerning communications between you and any journalist or reporter, including but not limited to Cyrus Sibert or Michael P. Mayko, concerning Project Pierre Toussaint, any one or more of the Plaintiffs, Father Carrier, the Haiti Fund, Inc., the Society of Jesus of New England, Inc., Fairfield University, Hope Carter or the Order of Malta."

Cyrus Sibert is a Haitian journalist (www.reseaucitadelle.blogspot.com).

Mike Mayko writes for the Connecticut Post.

In October 2010, the New England Newspaper and Press Association recognized "Betrayal of Hope," a Connecticut Post investigative report on the sexual abuse of children at Project Pierre Toussaint in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Reporter Mike Mayko and photographer Christian Abraham traveled to Cap-Haitien to examine the allegations.

"Betrayal of Hope" received one of NENPA's eight Publick Occurrence awards honoring outstanding journalism.
___________________________________________________________________________

Sent earlier this week:

Haiti: One Table, Many Partners Conference

Protection of Children in Haiti from Sexual Abuse

http://onetable.crs.org/

March 6, 2012

Most Rev. Richard Malone
Most Rev. Guy Sansaricq
Haiti: One Table, Many Partners Conference
Catholic Relief Services
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Washington, D.C.

Dear Bishop Malone and Bishop Sansaricq,

We write today to strongly urge you to present and examine the criminal child sexual abuse case, United States of America v. Douglas Perlitz, at the upcoming “Haiti: One Table, Many Partners” conference in June.
In December 2010, Douglas Perlitz, founder and former Executive Director of Project Pierre Toussaint in Haiti, was sentenced in Connecticut federal court to almost 20 years in prison for sexually abusing boys who were under his care in Haiti.


In 1997, Perlitz founded Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city, as a program to help street children. PPT provided shelter, food, and basic education for children living on the streets. Perlitz raised millions of dollars through grants and donations, and PPT grew to occupy a 10-acre compound with a school, dormitories, and a soccer field.

PPT was supported and funded by many Catholic organizations, including the Order of Malta, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, the Knights of Columbus, Fairfield University, the New England Society of Jesus and the Haiti Fund, Inc. a Connecticut based non-profit whose chairman, Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., was the long-time Director of Campus Ministry at Fairfield University.

It is encouraging for us to know that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has included the protection of children on its agenda at the first national conference on solidarity with Haiti, to be held from June 1st to 3rd, 2012 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. According to your web site “there are over 400 U.S. parishes partnered with parishes in Haiti and many other Catholics who are involved in helping Haiti in one way or another.”

It is our firm belief that a presentation and discussion of the Perlitz case will provide conference attendees with the most comprehensive learning experience and inside look at the ways and means by which people and institutions in the United States failed to protect innocent children at their mission in Haiti due to a lack of checks, balances, systems, procedures and policies designed to protect children from abuse.

Therefore, we urge you to invite Assistant U.S. Attorney Krishna R. Patel, U.S. Attorney David B. Fein and Special Agent Rod Khattabi of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement to host these sessions. This landmark case established legal and lawenforcement precedents by which a U.S. citizen will be prosecuted in U.S. federal court for crimes committed against children. no matter where in the world the crimes are committed.

Children in Haiti are even more vulnerable to sexual abuse because of a lack of law enforcement and an effective child protective services system. An examination of this particular case will and educate attendees as to how and why the charismatic U.S. director of a private school in Haiti was able to manipulate so many adults and harm so many children for so many years.

At the sentencing hearing, the attorneys representing Perlitz made every effort to remind the judge of all the “good works” that Perlitz had accomplished in Haiti. In response, the judge told Perlitz, “If one digs a well to supply water to those who have never had water, and then that person poisons the water, was building that well a good deed?"

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Cyrus Sibert
Cap-Haitien, Haiti
reseaucitadelle@gmail.com
509-3686-9669

Paul Kendrick
kendrickpt@aol.com
Freeport, Maine
207-838-1319
__________________________________________________________________________________________

BACKGROUND

www.ctpost.com/betrayal

CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp0vCfDgknM&context=C329affaADOEgsToPDskJPUQ4N5uBNY4z4wZTvbyAx\\

Connecticut Post Media:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68yNZt8bLsY&feature=context&context=C329affaADOEgsToPDskJPUQ4N5uBNY4z4wZTvbyAx

http://search.bishop-accountability.org/search?q=perlitz&ie=&site=ba-prod&output=xml_no_dtd&client=ba-prod&lr=&proxystylesheet=ba-prod&oe=

www.bishopaccountability.org/complaints/Haiti/
__________________________________________________________________________________________

In August 2007, the children who were being sexually abused by Douglas Perlitz began to cry out for help. Here’s a copy of the first published report.The abuse victims and Cyrus Sibert put themselves in great physical danger by reporting the abuse.

Cap-Haïtien, le Pédophile et son Centre d’Accueil pour ‘‘Enfants de rue’’

Cyrus Sibert,
AVEC L’OPINION,
reseaucitadelle@yahoo.fr
Radio Kontak Inter 94.9 F .M.
Cap-Haïtien, Haïti
19 Août 2007

La défense de la liberté exige l’intolérance du citoyen face à l’injustice. Même quand les victimes refusent que leur noms soient cités dans la presse, même quand au lieu d’enquêter sur les faits on préfère nous demander plus de preuves et de porter plaintes, on ne saurait passer sous silence cette situation d’injustice à laquelle font face les enfants ‘‘de rue’’ et/ou ‘‘dans la rue’’ du Cap-Haïtien.

Il existe au Cap-Haïtien, un centre d’accueil qui aussi, constitue un centre d’abus pour les enfants de rue. Dirigé par un américain très connu dans le milieu, ce centre dispose d’un programme bien adapté et offre aux jeunes démunis des rues des possibilités d’épanouissement. On n’a qu’à observer l’évolution de ces jeunes exclus qui fréquentent le centre pour se faire une idée de son utilité. Ils y sont bien encadrés. Les programmes de formation technique et d’encadrement psychologique sont d’une contribution énorme. De jeunes enfants pauvres arrivent à produire et à créer un revenu au point tel de devenir leader économique de leur famille.

On peut facilement apercevoir ces jeunes gens à la plage, dans les lieux de loisir accompagnés de travailleurs sociaux professionnels. Le centre fait tout pour les aider à réussir leur vie. Dans un pays où l’Etat néglige les plus faibles (pauvres, handicapés, enfants et vieillards), dans une société où il n’existe pas de programmes structurés de prise en charge des enfants sans abris, on ne peut qu’apprécier l’effort de ce centre dont nous nous gardons de citer le nom, pour le moment.

Cependant, faute de contrôle de ces initiatives privées par les services de l’Etat, ces genres de centres représentent souvent un espace privilégié pour des détraqués, des pédophiles ou homosexuels. A leurs yeux, les enfants de rue représentent une mine de chair fraîche à exploiter. Les plus petits sont entraînés par ignorance ou manque d’expérience. Il suffit de dire à un enfant : monte dans ma chambre, je vais t’apprendre quelque chose qui te fera du bien. Si tu le fais bien et sans problème et si tu gardes notre secret, je serai ton ami et....

Pour les plus vieux, les adolescents en âge de comprendre, on conclut un marché : Pas de chair, pas de support. Si tu n’acceptes pas de passer la nuit dans mon lit, tu seras obligé de quitter le programme. Le jeune qui refuse n’a d’autre choix que de retourner dans la rue sans encadrement et de voir le programme de financement de ses activités musicales ou sportives suspendu.

Mais on peut toutefois renouer les liens. Il suffit de passer chez le Boss et se laisser abuser toute une nuit. Une nuit de plaisir et de douleur. Du plaisir pour le Boss qui utilise toute sorte de produits aphrodisiaques pour augmenter sa performance et de la douleur pour ce jeune de 15 ans qui explique, avec des larmes aux yeux, sa souffrance : Toute une nuit Cyrus ! Toute une nuit, pour le plaisir de cet homme blanc qui ne veut pas en finir ! Un triste témoignage qui ne pouvait nous laisser indifférent. Voir pleuré un jeune adolescent pris aux pièges d’un pédophile homosexuel à cause de la misère est émouvant.

Quant au Centre, les jeunes victimes le voient comme un acquis. Grâce à son travail, des démunis sont devenus musiciens, artisans, footballeurs, etc. Même quand ils nous racontent ces abus, ils ne veulent pas que ce programme soit suspendu. Le pédophile responsable semble
avoir mis dans leur tête l’idée que s’ils rendent public ces faits il n’y aura plus de Centre. Il fallait voir avec quelle insistance on nous demande de ne pas mentionner les noms du Centre, de son responsable et même pas celui des victimes. Toutefois, l’un d’entre eux promet de témoigner s’il y a une enquête sérieuse sur cette affaire.

Alors ce qui est révoltant dans tout cela : Où est l’Etat qui empoche nos taxes ? Pourquoi les responsables haïtiens refusent-ils de contrôler ces centres privés ? Pourquoi on n’y affecte pas des travailleurs sociaux, des étudiants stagiaires, comme on le fait pour les centres de santé ? Pourquoi les responsables méprisent-ils les démunis de ce pays au point de livrer nos enfants aux bouchers de la pédophilie et de l’homosexualité ?

Cyrus Sibert
Cap-Haïtien, Haïti
19 Août 2007

Cyrus Sibert vous invite à suivre ses émissions
sur 'Radio Kontak Inter' 94.9 F .M., Cap-Haïtien, Haïti.
Tel : 509-449-5707 / 509-686-9669


Letter to Co-Chairs of "Haiti: One Table" Conference

Haiti: One Table, Many Partners Conference

Protection of Children in Haiti from Sexual Abuse

http://onetable.crs.org/

March 6, 2012

Most Rev. Richard Malone
Most Rev. Guy Sansaricq
Haiti: One Table, Many Partners Conference
Catholic Relief Services
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Washington, D.C.

Dear Bishop Malone and Bishop Sansaricq,

We write today to strongly urge you to present and examine the criminal child sexual abuse case, United States of America v. Douglas Perlitz, at the upcoming “Haiti: One Table, Many Partners” conference in June.
In December 2010, Douglas Perlitz, founder and former Executive Director of Project Pierre Toussaint in Haiti, was sentenced in Connecticut federal court to almost 20 years in prison for sexually abusing boys who were under his care in Haiti.

In 1997, Perlitz founded Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city, as a program to help street children. PPT provided shelter, food, and basic education for children living on the streets. Perlitz raised millions of dollars through grants and donations, and PPT grew to occupy a 10-acre compound with a school, dormitories, and a soccer field.

PPT was supported and funded by many Catholic organizations, including the Order of Malta, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, the Knights of Columbus, Fairfield University, the New England Society of Jesus and the Haiti Fund, Inc. a Connecticut based non-profit whose chairman, Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., was the long-time Director of Campus Ministry at Fairfield University.

It is encouraging for us to know that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has included the protection of children on its agenda at the first national conference on solidarity with Haiti, to be held from June 1st to 3rd, 2012 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. According to your web site “there are over 400 U.S. parishes partnered with parishes in Haiti and many other Catholics who are involved in helping Haiti in one way or another.”

It is our firm belief that a presentation and discussion of the Perlitz case will provide conference attendees with the most comprehensive learning experience and inside look at the ways and means by which people and institutions in the United States failed to protect innocent children at their mission in Haiti due to a lack of checks, balances, systems, procedures and policies designed to protect children from abuse.

Therefore, we urge you to invite Assistant U.S. Attorney Krishna R. Patel, U.S. Attorney David B. Fein and Special Agent Rod Khattabi of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement to host these sessions. This landmark case established legal and lawenforcement precedents by which a U.S. citizen will be prosecuted in U.S. federal court for crimes committed against children. no matter where in the world the crimes are committed.

Children in Haiti are even more vulnerable to sexual abuse because of a lack of law enforcement and an effective child protective services system. An examination of this particular case will and educate attendees as to how and why the charismatic U.S. director of a private school in Haiti was able to manipulate so many adults and harm so many children for so many years.

At the sentencing hearing, the attorneys representing Perlitz made every effort to remind the judge of all the “good works” that Perlitz had accomplished in Haiti. In response, the judge told Perlitz, “If one digs a well to supply water to those who have never had water, and then that person poisons the water, was building that well a good deed?"
We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Cyrus Sibert
Cap-Haitien, Haiti
reseaucitadelle@gmail.com
509-3686-9669

Paul Kendrick
Freeport, Maine

kendrickpt@aol.com
207-838-1319
__________________________________________________________________________________________

BACKGROUND

www.ctpost.com/betrayal

CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp0vCfDgknM&context=C329affaADOEgsToPDskJPUQ4N5uBNY4z4wZTvbyAx\\

Connecticut Post Media:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68yNZt8bLsY&feature=context&context=C329affaADOEgsToPDskJPUQ4N5uBNY4z4wZTvbyAx

http://search.bishop-accountability.org/search?q=perlitz&ie=&site=ba-prod&output=xml_no_dtd&client=ba-prod&lr=&proxystylesheet=ba-prod&oe=

www.bishopaccountability.org/complaints/Haiti/
__________________________________________________________________________________________

In August 2007, the children who were being sexually abused by Douglas Perlitz began to cry out for help. Here’s a copy of the first published report.The abuse victims and Cyrus Sibert put themselves in great physical danger by reporting the abuse.

Cap-Haïtien, le Pédophile et son Centre d’Accueil pour ‘‘Enfants de rue’’

Cyrus Sibert
AVEC L’OPINION,
reseaucitadelle@yahoo.fr
Radio Kontak Inter 94.9 F .M.Cap-Haïtien, Haïti19 Août 2007

La défense de la liberté exige l’intolérance du citoyen face à l’injustice. Même quand les victimes refusent que leur noms soient cités dans la presse, même quand au lieu d’enquêter sur les faits on préfère nous demander plus de preuves et de porter plaintes, on ne saurait passer sous silence cette situation d’injustice à laquelle font face les enfants ‘‘de rue’’ et/ou ‘‘dans la rue’’ du Cap-Haïtien.


Il existe au Cap-Haïtien, un centre d’accueil qui aussi, constitue un centre d’abus pour les enfants de rue. Dirigé par un américain très connu dans le milieu, ce centre dispose d’un programme bien adapté et offre aux jeunes démunis des rues des possibilités d’épanouissement. On n’a qu’à observer l’évolution de ces jeunes exclus qui fréquentent le centre pour se faire une idée de son utilité. Ils y sont bien encadrés. Les programmes de formation technique et d’encadrement psychologique sont d’une contribution énorme. De jeunes enfants pauvres arrivent à produire et à créer un revenu au point tel de devenir leader économique de leur famille.

On peut facilement apercevoir ces jeunes gens à la plage, dans les lieux de loisir accompagnés de travailleurs sociaux professionnels. Le centre fait tout pour les aider à réussir leur vie. Dans un pays où l’Etat néglige les plus faibles (pauvres, handicapés, enfants et vieillards), dans une société où il n’existe pas de programmes structurés de prise en charge des enfants sans abris, on ne peut qu’apprécier l’effort de ce centre dont nous nous gardons de citer le nom, pour le moment.

Cependant, faute de contrôle de ces initiatives privées par les services de l’Etat, ces genres de centres représentent souvent un espace privilégié pour des détraqués, des pédophiles ou homosexuels. A leurs yeux, les enfants de rue représentent une mine de chair fraîche à exploiter. Les plus petits sont entraînés par ignorance ou manque d’expérience. Il suffit de dire à un enfant : monte dans ma chambre, je vais t’apprendre quelque chose qui te fera du bien. Si tu le fais bien et sans problème et si tu gardes notre secret, je serai ton ami et....

Pour les plus vieux, les adolescents en âge de comprendre, on conclut un marché : Pas de chair, pas de support. Si tu n’acceptes pas de passer la nuit dans mon lit, tu seras obligé de quitter le programme. Le jeune qui refuse n’a d’autre choix que de retourner dans la rue sans encadrement et de voir le programme de financement de ses activités musicales ou sportives suspendu.

Mais on peut toutefois renouer les liens. Il suffit de passer chez le Boss et se laisser abuser toute une nuit. Une nuit de plaisir et de douleur. Du plaisir pour le Boss qui utilise toute sorte de produits aphrodisiaques pour augmenter sa performance et de la douleur pour ce jeune de 15 ans qui explique, avec des larmes aux yeux, sa souffrance : Toute une nuit Cyrus ! Toute une nuit, pour le plaisir de cet homme blanc qui ne veut pas en finir ! Un triste témoignage qui ne pouvait nous laisser indifférent. Voir pleuré un jeune adolescent pris aux pièges d’un pédophile homosexuel à cause de la misère est émouvant.

Quant au Centre, les jeunes victimes le voient comme un acquis. Grâce à son travail, des démunis sont devenus musiciens, artisans, footballeurs, etc. Même quand ils nous racontent ces abus, ils ne veulent pas que ce programme soit suspendu. Le pédophile responsable semble avoir mis dans leur tête l’idée que s’ils rendent public ces faits il n’y aura plus de Centre. Il fallait voir avec quelle insistance on nous demande de ne pas mentionner les noms du Centre, de son responsable et même pas celui des victimes. Toutefois, l’un d’entre eux promet de témoigner s’il y a une enquête sérieuse sur cette affaire.

Alors ce qui est révoltant dans tout cela : Où est l’Etat qui empoche nos taxes ? Pourquoi les responsables haïtiens refusent-ils de contrôler ces centres privés ? Pourquoi on n’y affecte pas des travailleurs sociaux, des étudiants stagiaires, comme on le fait pour les centres de santé ? Pourquoi les responsables méprisent-ils les démunis de ce pays au point de livrer nos enfants aux bouchers de la pédophilie et de l’homosexualité?

Cyrus Sibert
Cap-Haïtien, Haïti19 Août 2007
Cyrus Sibert vous invite à suivre ses émissions
sur 'Radio Kontak Inter' 94.9 F .M., Cap-Haïtien, Haïti.
Tel :
509-449-5707 / 509-686-9669