–An Algona native who founded an orphanage in Haiti back in the 1980’s is facing a US criminal charge after an investigation showed he traveled to that country to sexually abuse a minor.
The Des Moines Register is reporting that 71-year-old Michael Geilenfeld has been indicted for allegedly traveling to Haiti between November of 2006 and December of 2010 to engage in any illicit sexual conduct with a person under 18.
Geilenfeld was arrested in Colorado and will be transported to Miami to face the charges that carry a maximum sentence of 30-years in prison.
Geilenfeld was arrested in Haiti back in 2014 after being accused of abusing young men at the youth shelter he established in Port-au-Prince, but he was released eight months later after the case was dismissed.
The Algona native began working with children in 1974 when he joined Brothers of Charity.
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