Category Archive for : ‘HAITI’

A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in prison followed by a life term of supervised release for child sexual abuse in the impoverished Caribbean nation, officials said.

James Daniel Arbaugh, 40, of the small Virginia town of Stuarts Draft is the latest American missionary to receive a hefty sentence for taking advantage of Haiti’s extensive poverty and anemic rule of law to sexually abuse vulnerable youngsters.

Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in federal court to one count

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Douglas Perlitz, a 39 year old Colorado man charged with sexually abusing boys at a schoolhe founded for street children in Haiti, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to new charges that raisethe number of alleged victims to 18. Authorities accuse him of enticing children at the Project Pierre Toussaint school in Cap-Haitien into sex acts by promising them food, shelter, cash,cell phones, electronics and shoes. They say he also withheld benefits and threatened to expelthe boys if they refused his wishes. Perlitz pleaded not guilty in federal court in New

Stefan Irving, a 57 year old former pediatrician from Brooklyn, was charged with traveling to sun-splashed Acapulco to have sex with children at a motel that catered to pedophiles. He was arraigned on one-count criminal complaint and ordered detained pending a bail hearing. The complaint said Irving was a guest in May 1998 at the Castillo Vista Del Mar, a small guesthouse that attracted pedophiles via the Internet. It said he was convicted two decades ago on a charge of attempted sexual abuse of a child. His arrest was the