Does this monster remind you of someone else we know of?
Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, operated several orphanages and a home for the disabled in Haiti over a span of 30 years. During this time he destroyed the lives of many, many boys. Geilenfeld’s attorney argued for a reduced sentence because of his age, bouts with high blood pressure and glaucoma, and a “modest existence.” Go fuck yourself, Mike. Prepare to die in the Big House.
Francis (Frank) Duffield Shelden, after given such wide latitude by law enforcement that he was able to flee overseas to escape prosecution for child rape in 1976, spent many years at orphanages in foreign countries. No one stopped his pedophile camp at N. Fox Island in Northern Michigan, so he continued his crimes in other countries. A prolific, lifelong child rapist. I’m sure he bequeathed his many millions to his beloved nieces and nephews in the U.S. Rape and blood money. Some inheritance.
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Too bad Colorado got rid of the gas chamber. Pre World War 2, I believe the old chamber could seat four men.
They make it sound like this was a one man show. This guy had help and financial support from all over the USA and elsewhere. He obviously did not give them up for a shorter sentence. And he has been at it for 40 years. Who is going after them?
The link and quote below is a 2014 story that states that the financial support came primarily from the the Research Tringle Park area of North Carolina. I suppose it is just a coincidence that is where the last Busch brother has lived for many years.
“Such allegations have arisen repeatedly since 1987. Geilenfeld’s attackers say there are too many accusations for them not to be true. His supporters, meanwhile, say many of the reports were repeated by the same handful of cunning former street boys who snookered gullible Americans, and have proven to be not credible again and again.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article10065956.html
And as for the Detroit connection in the above link, check out the December 21, 1995 Detroit Free Press story and the ruling by the court:
Six Haitian orphans who accused their dance troupe chaperone of physical and mental abuse were released to the man’s custody Wednesday by a Wayne County Juvenile Court referee. After the Michigan Department of Social Services said none of the boys’ accounts of events that allegedly occurred in Michigan could be considered child abuse or neglect under state law, Referee Lorraine Weber dismissed the petition against Michael Geilenfeld.
Geilenfeld, who was accompanying the troupe on a U.S. fund-raising tour, is founder and director of the St. Joseph Home for Boys, the orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, where the boys live.
“This case does not involve the kind of abuse that would fall under the court’s jurisdiction,” Weber said. Officials “believe that if the allegations did occur, they did not occur in Michigan,” Weber said.
Weber turned over confiscated plane tickets and passports for the boys to Geilenfeld, who, according to a document sent by the Haitian government, is their legal guardian.
The passports of three adult members of the troupe were to be returned directly to them, Weber said. Geilenfeld said the allegations, which included claims that Geilenfeld. withheld food from the boys, were without merit. He said he would try to get the children aboard a flight to Haiti as soon as possible.
“They are children from the streets,” Geilenfeld said. “They have honed their manipulative skills and they know how to get certain reactions”
Geilenfeld promised Weber and two attorneys representing the children (Erma Gillis-Heck and Richard McKnight) that the children would not face retaliation for their charges.
Under Michigan law, Gillis-Heck and McKnight could petition the court on behalf of the children, but both said they agreed with the DSS decision not to pursue the case.
McKnight said he would call the Caribbean nations human services agency and the United Nations to ensure that follow-up investigation is conducted.
In 1987, boys at the orphanage claimed physical and sexual abuse by Geilenfeld in Haiti. No charges were filed. The country has been in turmoil in recent years, requiring intervention by U.S. troops in 1994 to restore elected President Jean-Bertrand-Aristide to power.
Geilenfeld said Wednesday that the 1987 allegations were groundless and that two of the boys who made the claims later asked to return to the to the orphanage.
Despite publicity about the charges, Geilenfeld said no benefactors of the orphanage had cut off their support. Justin Ravitz, representing the government of Haiti at the hearing, said officials wanted the children returned to Geilenfeld’s care.
Wow. Thanks, G-Man.
And “thanks,” Wayne County Juvenile Court Referee Lorraine Weber.
Apologies in advance for the length of this, but here’s someone else whose “Christian charity” disguised his nefarious acts for decades.
David Elliot Houstle (1940-2020) aka Walter Fein, Heinrich Gunther, Kevin J. Hayworth, David Henderson, Dave Hostel, Ralph J. Kueppers, Mike Malone, Peter Mitchell, George R. Morrison, Bret Peterson, Robert A. Rockford, Brian K. Singleton, Raymond Steen.
From 1975-1977 Houstle operated a child pornography ring out of Baltimore, MD that had 4,000 subscribers in the US and Europe and netted about $300,000/year. He had access to young boys through Big Brothers, Little League, an all-boys choir he directed, and his own counseling service, “Uncle Dave’s Open Door Boys’ Club” that boasted more than 150 young members.
The ring was complex. Orders for the child sexually abusive films, slides and photos were sent to a postbox in Grenzach-Whylen, Germany, forwarded to Basel, Switzerland, and then forwarded to Houstel in Baltimore, and then forwarded again through US mail order businesses such as Footman, Street Films, and Danny Boy Productions which mailed them out with a Washington, DC or VI address. The price of a film was $50, and a set of 16 slides cost $20.
In 1978 the ring was busted. Peter Thommen (still a pedophile activist) and Victor Rothlisberger were arrested in Switzerland and charged with conspiracy, although they were never prosecuted, and 3 US subscribers were arrested: William Moulton Ingliss, 35, a computer expert with top secret clearances for the federal government was charged with 22 counts which included transporting boys to FL and VA for child prostitution; Larry MacDunn, 35, a self-employed accountant; and Donald Eugene Maskin, 37. The latter two pled guilty: MacDunn was sentenced to 5 years in prison, Maskin to 7 years. Ingliss went on trial in Federal court where 5 boys testified against him and was found guilty on 21 of the 22 charges. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
And Houstle? He fled to Guatemala where there was no extradition for this type of crime. He was arrested, though, when he had a layover at a US airport in 1981. He plead guilty to 3 of the 24 charges on the indictment and was sentenced to 9 years. But luck was on his side. After serving a mere 6 months, he was freed from Federal prison and put on 5 years probation so that he could perform “Christian missionary work” back in Guatemala where he was now married with a son, and had established a company called Abco that sold refrigeration and air conditioning and that was netting about $8 million/year in profits.
His ”missionary work” also involved funding and sponsoring the Victor Manuel Barrios School for poor boys in Guatemala, many of them without families. There he filmed and photographed the boys in sex acts, sold and distributed the images on internet sites, and sold the boys to pedophile visitors. He was finally arrested in 2018, much to the shock of almost everyone who knew him, but especially to the elite he rubbed shoulders with and the good Christians he milked for contributions. He died in 2020 before he could stand trial.
Thanks, Mary.