Michael Karl Geilenfeldthe American convicted in 2025 for sexual abuse to children from an orphanage in Haitifounded an institution to provide support to adults and children in vulnerable situations in the Dominican Republicaccording to one of the released documents this Friday by the United States Department of Justice on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The condemned man, known as a ex-brother of the “Missionary Brothers of Charity“, operated through the San José Family of Haitia non-profit organization that fed, housed and educated disabled and disadvantaged children in that country.
Geilenfeld, who must serve 210 years in prison, also created “House of Two Rivers“, located in HigueyLa Altagracia province, through which it provided food aidfinancial and educational to poor families in the area.
The 80-page report reveals that a “self-proclaimed journalist” named Paul Kendrick unveiled in 2011 cases of sexual abuse of Geilenfeld against minors in the organizations he had founded.
He document belongs to one of the three million files declassified by federal authorities and corresponds to a demand claim for damages Michael Karl Geilenfeld had filed against the president of International Children’s Rights Advocates Society, Inc., Valerie Dirksenon March 9, 2021, before the State Court of Gwinnett County, State of Georgia.
- In the demandGeilenfeld argued that: “About 2011a self-proclaimed ‘journalist’ named Paul Kendrick began to publish numerous defamatory statements against plaintiff Michael Geilenfeld and the aforementioned organizations, falsely claiming that plaintiff sexually abused children.”
Among the evidence to support his demandGeilenfeld cited dozens of posts and comments from Valerie Dirksen made through Facebookwhere, in addition to mentioning Epstein, it states that the American was left at John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York, by the Dominican authorities, because the feds “did not want to pick him up.”
Condemnation 2025
A federal jury in Miami he found guilty Michael Karl Geilenfeld in 2025 for sexually abusing several minors in the orphanage he founded and ran in Haiti.
Geilenfeld, from 73 yearswas found guilty of seven crimes committed between 2005 and 2010, including traveling abroad for illicit sexual purposes and sexual abuse in a foreign country.
Six victims testified at trial, along with four others who were not part of the charges. The sentence will be handed down on May 5. The investigation was conducted by the DHS (United States Department of Homeland Security) and the FBI, and the case was prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice.
