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.,
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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
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Friday, March 9, 2012
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
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
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
PWOJE ESPWA (FREE THE KIDS) INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL CONTACT WITH A CHILD
PWOJE ESPWA (FREE THE KIDS)
OFFICIAL COMPLAINT OF INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL CONTACT WITH A CHILD.
May 13, 2011
Bill Commer
Chairman of the Board
Free the Kids/Pwoje Espwa
Les Cayes, Haiti
Bill,
Please accept this letter as a formal complaint of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor by Brother Robert-Anthony Campbell, FSB, a current employee of Pwoje Espwa in Les Cayes, Haiti.
Although I made this information known to you two days ago, neither you, Rev. Marc Boisvert, nor any of your board members has contacted me for a clarification and further explanation of my concerns (two of your board members, one a lawyer, the other a pediatrician, reside right here in Maine).
As your first order of business, please make Brother Robert-Anthony Campbell's and Rev. Marc Boisvert's religious superiors aware of my complaint.
Rev. Boisvert's superiors are located In the United States. In 2002, the U.S. Bishops Conference implemented the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People for instruction and guidance as to what to do in matters like this.
What is your agency's protocol for handling sexual misconduct complaints? I am certain this is covered in your "child protection manual."
It's interesting, Bill, as to how this all developed in such a short time.
All I initially wanted was a copy of your child protection manual. When too much time went by, I asked again. This time I felt pushed back. I then wrote to Rev. Boisvert, who pushed back even further with his passive aggressive behavior. I then took a closer look at the organization and came across Brother Campbell's disturbing references in his blog.
I suspect you will say, hey Paul, this is Haiti. Things are different here. In Haiti, it's ok for a Catholic priest or brother (both adult men) to befriend one of the students in a loving way that makes (grooms) this particular child feel special and different.
You may say, hey Paul, it's ok in Haiti for a Catholic priest or brother to wash a child's bare back, shampoo his hair and help him into a new pair of shorts.
Or, Paul, don't you know that grown-up Catholic men who are priests and brothers in Haiti always wash and scrub a naked child's body in the shower "from head to toe" and then shampoo the child's hair (as Brother Campbell did to 11 year old Phillipe)?
If anyone reading this has a teenager or 11 year old son, I want you to think about what you would say and do if you came home early and discovered your houseguest, Brother Campbell, rubbing soap and shampoo with his hands all over your child's naked, wet body in the bathroom shower at your home.
What would you do? What would you say?
Now, pause and think again about Brother Campbell's hands being on your child.
What's not right for a child in the U.S. is not right for a child in Haiti.
You need to take immediate action.
Sincerely,
Paul Kendrick
Freeport, ME
207 838 1319
May 13, 2011
Bill Commer
Chairman of the Board
Free the Kids/Pwoje Espwa
Les Cayes, Haiti
Bill,
Please accept this letter as a formal complaint of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor by Brother Robert-Anthony Campbell, FSB, a current employee of Pwoje Espwa in Les Cayes, Haiti.
Although I made this information known to you two days ago, neither you, Rev. Marc Boisvert, nor any of your board members has contacted me for a clarification and further explanation of my concerns (two of your board members, one a lawyer, the other a pediatrician, reside right here in Maine).
As your first order of business, please make Brother Robert-Anthony Campbell's and Rev. Marc Boisvert's religious superiors aware of my complaint.
Rev. Boisvert's superiors are located In the United States. In 2002, the U.S. Bishops Conference implemented the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People for instruction and guidance as to what to do in matters like this.
What is your agency's protocol for handling sexual misconduct complaints? I am certain this is covered in your "child protection manual."
It's interesting, Bill, as to how this all developed in such a short time.
All I initially wanted was a copy of your child protection manual. When too much time went by, I asked again. This time I felt pushed back. I then wrote to Rev. Boisvert, who pushed back even further with his passive aggressive behavior. I then took a closer look at the organization and came across Brother Campbell's disturbing references in his blog.
I suspect you will say, hey Paul, this is Haiti. Things are different here. In Haiti, it's ok for a Catholic priest or brother (both adult men) to befriend one of the students in a loving way that makes (grooms) this particular child feel special and different.
You may say, hey Paul, it's ok in Haiti for a Catholic priest or brother to wash a child's bare back, shampoo his hair and help him into a new pair of shorts.
Or, Paul, don't you know that grown-up Catholic men who are priests and brothers in Haiti always wash and scrub a naked child's body in the shower "from head to toe" and then shampoo the child's hair (as Brother Campbell did to 11 year old Phillipe)?
If anyone reading this has a teenager or 11 year old son, I want you to think about what you would say and do if you came home early and discovered your houseguest, Brother Campbell, rubbing soap and shampoo with his hands all over your child's naked, wet body in the bathroom shower at your home.
What would you do? What would you say?
Now, pause and think again about Brother Campbell's hands being on your child.
What's not right for a child in the U.S. is not right for a child in Haiti.
You need to take immediate action.
Sincerely,
Paul Kendrick
Freeport, ME
207 838 1319
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Gavin Group Compliance Audit in Maine is a Fraud
December 9, 2009
Commentary
by Paul Kendrick
Bishop Richard Malone is still keeping secrets.
That's why we're just finding out that, from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009, eleven more child sex abuse victims reported that they were molested by five living and four deceased priests.
Even as he reports the numbers, Bishop Malone won't tell us the names and whereabouts of the credibly accused priests and how many more children each priest abused.
When child abusers are identified, victims may learn for the first time that they were not the only one. Or, if it is now known that a previously accused priest abused a child in a different parish or school, this information may help other victims to feel strong enough to reach out for help.
The bishops go out of their way to advertise and promote Bill Gavin's (Gavin Group, Inc.) past experience in the FBI as if this information, in and by itself, ensures us that diocese audits will be thorough and unbiased. Yet, neither Mr. Gavin nor the bishops will admit that the financial success of Mr. Gavin's company is dependent upon the goodwill of Catholic bishops across the country. If enough bishops become dissatisfied with the results of their child protection compliance audits, then Mr. Gavin will be shown the door in the same manner as was Governor Keating, former head of the National Review Board.
The very definition of "self audit" is "conflict of interest."
As an advocate for the protection of children and those who were abused, I spoke on the phone earlier today with Mr. Gavin. I focused on a single question; "How can you issue a report that states that Bishop Malone is doing everything he can to protect children when an admitted priest child molester, one who is still in the bishop's employ and remains under the bishop's supervision, is living in a Falmouth neighborhood that's full of kids and no one in the community knows about the priest's past history of abusing children?"
Mr. Gavin had a response on the tip of his tongue. He told me he conducts compliance audits that fall within the four corners of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, nothing more, nothing less.
In other words, if the child protection provisions of the Charter don't specifically state that a bishop must not put kids at risk by allowing an admitted priest child abuser to live anonymously in a neighborhood full of children, then Mr. Gavin and his auditors will ignore this child safety violation in their final report.
Thus, a bishop like Richard Malone gets an "A" for "ensuring the safety of children."
Reminds me of a question I asked a long time high school administrator about what has changed most during his many years in education. He used the example of a student who was caught setting fire to books in the school's library. The student was immediately expelled, causing the angry parents to rush to the principal's office. "Where in the school's handbook," the parents wanted to know, "does it explicitly state that a student will be expelled for setting fire to library books?"
Commentary
by Paul Kendrick
Bishop Richard Malone is still keeping secrets.
That's why we're just finding out that, from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009, eleven more child sex abuse victims reported that they were molested by five living and four deceased priests.
Even as he reports the numbers, Bishop Malone won't tell us the names and whereabouts of the credibly accused priests and how many more children each priest abused.
When child abusers are identified, victims may learn for the first time that they were not the only one. Or, if it is now known that a previously accused priest abused a child in a different parish or school, this information may help other victims to feel strong enough to reach out for help.
The bishops go out of their way to advertise and promote Bill Gavin's (Gavin Group, Inc.) past experience in the FBI as if this information, in and by itself, ensures us that diocese audits will be thorough and unbiased. Yet, neither Mr. Gavin nor the bishops will admit that the financial success of Mr. Gavin's company is dependent upon the goodwill of Catholic bishops across the country. If enough bishops become dissatisfied with the results of their child protection compliance audits, then Mr. Gavin will be shown the door in the same manner as was Governor Keating, former head of the National Review Board.
The very definition of "self audit" is "conflict of interest."
As an advocate for the protection of children and those who were abused, I spoke on the phone earlier today with Mr. Gavin. I focused on a single question; "How can you issue a report that states that Bishop Malone is doing everything he can to protect children when an admitted priest child molester, one who is still in the bishop's employ and remains under the bishop's supervision, is living in a Falmouth neighborhood that's full of kids and no one in the community knows about the priest's past history of abusing children?"
Mr. Gavin had a response on the tip of his tongue. He told me he conducts compliance audits that fall within the four corners of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, nothing more, nothing less.
In other words, if the child protection provisions of the Charter don't specifically state that a bishop must not put kids at risk by allowing an admitted priest child abuser to live anonymously in a neighborhood full of children, then Mr. Gavin and his auditors will ignore this child safety violation in their final report.
Thus, a bishop like Richard Malone gets an "A" for "ensuring the safety of children."
Reminds me of a question I asked a long time high school administrator about what has changed most during his many years in education. He used the example of a student who was caught setting fire to books in the school's library. The student was immediately expelled, causing the angry parents to rush to the principal's office. "Where in the school's handbook," the parents wanted to know, "does it explicitly state that a student will be expelled for setting fire to library books?"
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Houses of worship close as house of bishop eats up cash
Portland Press Herald
BILL NEMITZ
August 28, 2009
The more the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland shutters its churches and puts them on the real estate market, the larger the question looms: Should Maine's bishop still be living in a million-dollar mansion?
It's on Portland's tony Western Promenade. According to city tax records, the 6,970-square-foot, three-story "mansion" has six bedrooms, 4 baths, an 840-square-foot garage and an assessed value of $1,126,000.
In short, pretty nice digs by anyone's standards. Too nice, according to at least one perennial thorn in the side of Bishop Richard Malone.
"It's not about Richard Malone," said Paul Kendrick, a Roman Catholic who for years has publicly decried the church's handling of the sexual abuse of children by priests. "It's about 'What kind of church is this?'"
Kendrick fired off a mass-distribution e-mail this week after hearing that five churches – Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Saco, St. Mary of the Assumption and St. Andre churches in Biddeford, and St. Joseph and St. Patrick churches in Lewiston – will close this year and next because of shrinking congregations, growing costs to maintain the buildings and the need to protect religious programs and services from ever-increasing parish deficits.
"Bishop Malone wants Maine's Catholics to cut costs, spend less and do without," observed Kendrick. "Everyone, that is, but him."
Tough words, to be sure, from a man who last year was threatened with official church sanctions (not to mention police arrest) if he didn't steer clear of Malone.
Still, it's not the first time in recent years that the opulence of a bishop's residence has raised eyebrows – and in a few cases, led to "For Sale" signs.
Six years ago, as the Archdiocese of Boston struggled to pay for legal claims by those sexually abused by priests, Cardinal Sean O'Malley sold the palatial cardinal's residence in Brighton, Mass., and moved into the rectory of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End. The move, which caught many by surprise, won O'Malley widespread praise, even from the archdiocese's harshest critics.
Last fall, Bishop David Zubik of the Diocese of Pittsburgh put his residence up for sale and moved into a seminary to be closer to those studying to be priests. The Rev. Ronald Lengwin, spokesman for the diocese, said this week that the property, valued last fall at $1.5 million, is now under contract and will likely be sold within the next few weeks.
Zubik told the media last fall that his decision reflects "more pressing concerns" facing the diocese as it struggles to make ends meet and at the same time fulfill its basic missions, including "reaching out to the poor."
"People think it's good that he is moving in with the seminarians," said Lengwin. "And that it's good for the church."
Then there's the Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio, where Bishop George Murry put his suburban residence on the market for $339,000 three months ago and moved into a smaller home in the city. Murry also announced that many furnishings from the stately five-bedroom home would be donated to Catholic Charities.
Diocese of Youngstown Chancellor Nancy Yuhasz said Thursday that although the property has not yet been sold, Murry's decision has been "received very well by the parishioners and the clergy." The old residence "is so large and such an expense," Yuhasz said. "It shows we're trying to be good stewards of our resources."
Back here in Portland, diocesan spokeswoman Sue Bernard said it would be a mistake to assume a connection between what it costs to run the diocese – including, for example, the $19,620 annual property-tax bill for the bishop's residence – and the ongoing efforts to bring various parishes' property more in line with their current needs.
(The diocese's operations are funded from a variety of sources, Bernard said, including a 12 percent levy on each parish's total revenue and a bishop's fundraising appeal made directly each year to Maine's estimated 200,000 Roman Catholics.)
Malone's charge to the parishes, Bernard noted, has been to determine "What do you need? Take a look at what you need and see if there's an excess there."
But might the same challenge be put to the bishop? Considering that he lives alone, does he truly need six bedrooms, four bathrooms, a three-car garage?
Bernard noted that the mansion, which has served as the bishop's residence since Bishop Joseph McCarthy purchased it for the diocese back in 1939, is used to entertain visitors to the diocese and for other social functions.
"He lives there by himself," she said, "but he isn't the only one who uses it."
What's more, Bernard said, while it's in a "lovely neighborhood," the interior could use some work. "There's wallpaper coming off in some places, peeling paint."
So why not sell it and move into the rectory at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, where Maine's bishops lived before 1939?
In addition to generating, say, a million dollars from a sale and saving another $25,000 or so in annual operating expenses, might not such a downsizing send a powerful message to Maine's Roman Catholics about living within one's needs in these austere times?
"I'm sure there are people who would agree," Bernard conceded.
Starting, of course, with Kendrick, who titled his latest missive "Do Catholics in Biddeford, Saco and Lewiston know about this?"
"We're talking about the parishioners' money," Kendrick said, "and there's too much else to do with it."
Columnist Bill Nemitz can be contacted at 791-6323 or at:
bnemitz@pressherald.com
BILL NEMITZ
August 28, 2009
The more the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland shutters its churches and puts them on the real estate market, the larger the question looms: Should Maine's bishop still be living in a million-dollar mansion?
It's on Portland's tony Western Promenade. According to city tax records, the 6,970-square-foot, three-story "mansion" has six bedrooms, 4 baths, an 840-square-foot garage and an assessed value of $1,126,000.
In short, pretty nice digs by anyone's standards. Too nice, according to at least one perennial thorn in the side of Bishop Richard Malone.
"It's not about Richard Malone," said Paul Kendrick, a Roman Catholic who for years has publicly decried the church's handling of the sexual abuse of children by priests. "It's about 'What kind of church is this?'"
Kendrick fired off a mass-distribution e-mail this week after hearing that five churches – Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Saco, St. Mary of the Assumption and St. Andre churches in Biddeford, and St. Joseph and St. Patrick churches in Lewiston – will close this year and next because of shrinking congregations, growing costs to maintain the buildings and the need to protect religious programs and services from ever-increasing parish deficits.
"Bishop Malone wants Maine's Catholics to cut costs, spend less and do without," observed Kendrick. "Everyone, that is, but him."
Tough words, to be sure, from a man who last year was threatened with official church sanctions (not to mention police arrest) if he didn't steer clear of Malone.
Still, it's not the first time in recent years that the opulence of a bishop's residence has raised eyebrows – and in a few cases, led to "For Sale" signs.
Six years ago, as the Archdiocese of Boston struggled to pay for legal claims by those sexually abused by priests, Cardinal Sean O'Malley sold the palatial cardinal's residence in Brighton, Mass., and moved into the rectory of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End. The move, which caught many by surprise, won O'Malley widespread praise, even from the archdiocese's harshest critics.
Last fall, Bishop David Zubik of the Diocese of Pittsburgh put his residence up for sale and moved into a seminary to be closer to those studying to be priests. The Rev. Ronald Lengwin, spokesman for the diocese, said this week that the property, valued last fall at $1.5 million, is now under contract and will likely be sold within the next few weeks.
Zubik told the media last fall that his decision reflects "more pressing concerns" facing the diocese as it struggles to make ends meet and at the same time fulfill its basic missions, including "reaching out to the poor."
"People think it's good that he is moving in with the seminarians," said Lengwin. "And that it's good for the church."
Then there's the Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio, where Bishop George Murry put his suburban residence on the market for $339,000 three months ago and moved into a smaller home in the city. Murry also announced that many furnishings from the stately five-bedroom home would be donated to Catholic Charities.
Diocese of Youngstown Chancellor Nancy Yuhasz said Thursday that although the property has not yet been sold, Murry's decision has been "received very well by the parishioners and the clergy." The old residence "is so large and such an expense," Yuhasz said. "It shows we're trying to be good stewards of our resources."
Back here in Portland, diocesan spokeswoman Sue Bernard said it would be a mistake to assume a connection between what it costs to run the diocese – including, for example, the $19,620 annual property-tax bill for the bishop's residence – and the ongoing efforts to bring various parishes' property more in line with their current needs.
(The diocese's operations are funded from a variety of sources, Bernard said, including a 12 percent levy on each parish's total revenue and a bishop's fundraising appeal made directly each year to Maine's estimated 200,000 Roman Catholics.)
Malone's charge to the parishes, Bernard noted, has been to determine "What do you need? Take a look at what you need and see if there's an excess there."
But might the same challenge be put to the bishop? Considering that he lives alone, does he truly need six bedrooms, four bathrooms, a three-car garage?
Bernard noted that the mansion, which has served as the bishop's residence since Bishop Joseph McCarthy purchased it for the diocese back in 1939, is used to entertain visitors to the diocese and for other social functions.
"He lives there by himself," she said, "but he isn't the only one who uses it."
What's more, Bernard said, while it's in a "lovely neighborhood," the interior could use some work. "There's wallpaper coming off in some places, peeling paint."
So why not sell it and move into the rectory at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, where Maine's bishops lived before 1939?
In addition to generating, say, a million dollars from a sale and saving another $25,000 or so in annual operating expenses, might not such a downsizing send a powerful message to Maine's Roman Catholics about living within one's needs in these austere times?
"I'm sure there are people who would agree," Bernard conceded.
Starting, of course, with Kendrick, who titled his latest missive "Do Catholics in Biddeford, Saco and Lewiston know about this?"
"We're talking about the parishioners' money," Kendrick said, "and there's too much else to do with it."
Columnist Bill Nemitz can be contacted at 791-6323 or at:
bnemitz@pressherald.com
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