Many former residents of the orphanage reported abuse by Catholic leaders. A memorial honoring residents of the former St. Joseph's Orphanage, where many children described abuse at the hands of ...

Survivors of Burlington’s St. Joseph’s Orphanage — a long-shuttered institution with a dark legacy of abuse — gathered with supporters and public officials in Kieslich Park on Friday afternoon to ...

BURLINGTON, Vermont (WPTZ) — A memorial archway is taking shape in Burlington as a tribute to people who endured abuse at a long-closed Catholic orphanage. “The idea is really to create a portal, to ...

A Colorado man has been convicted in the sexual abuse of boys who lived in an orphanage that he opened in Haiti in the mid-1980s. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, founded the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A federal judge on Friday sentenced the 73-year-old founder of a Haitian orphanage to 210 years in prison after calling him the “worst of the worst” in a devastating child ...

Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, who is accused of sexually abusing a half-dozen boys at the orphanage he founded in Haiti. He is on trial in Miami federal court in February 2025. Courtesy of Homeland ...

A memorial honoring residents of the former St. Joseph's Orphanage, where many children described abuse at the hands of Catholic leaders, will be unveiled in Burlington. The Voices of St. Joseph's ...