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For about a decade, a Colorado man named Douglas Perlitz (pictured) kept a dirty little secret in the Pierre Tossaint Project school he founded in Cap Haitien Haiti.
He was sexually abusing boys.
And he threatened them with life on the streets if they told anyone of his crime. Thankfully, some of the boys were brave and told of their treatment.
So it was a sober Perlitz who apologized to victims in a Connecticut courtroom as a federal judge sentenced him to almost 20 years in jail this week.
Though he admitted his crimes were bad, Perlitz had the nerve to ask for a lighter sentence because of the good works he did on behalf of children in Haiti.
Perlitz gave money, food and clothing to the children and threatened to take it all away if they told anyone, so Perlitz was taking advantage of the weakest people in a broken society in order to fulfill his sick sexual desires.
The more you think about his crimes, the more inadequate his 20-year sentence sounds. Maybe life would have been a more suitable punishment.
I hope authorities aren't done looking at this case, because I'm sure there are some other folks who should be behind bars. Could Perlitz have pulled off his abuse without some other adults knowing. Maybe there are others who helped him get away with it?
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By: JJSherman on 12/22/2010 7:23PM
What kind of animal is this man, and what give him the right to sexually abuse these children just because he feed them and clothe them? I hope he experience hell while in jail. Shame on him and shame on the treatment that he gave to these boys. And for the Judge God bless you and now throw away the key.
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By: Redheels on 12/23/2010 2:43PM
White males are BIG freaks and the females too - that's why HOMOSEXUALITY is soooo big today!
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By: KW on 12/23/2010 6:30PM
I am alarmed at all the cases of child and/or sexual abuse that is in the media right now.
From Douglas Perlitz in Haiti -working with young Black boys, Joe Ballard in Nebraska -working with young Black boys, Dr. James Marion Sims -who repeatedly performed experimental vaginal operations on three young slaves women from 1845 to 1849 Macon/Montgomery Co., AL. He used no anesthesia on these women and "prescribed" opiates after each surgury as a pain killer thus subsequently addicting them. Had Dr. Sims not wrote about Anarcha's 30+ operations, Betsy, and Lucy in his memoirs, history would not have known of these slave women who gave their lives to modern medicine. Dr. Sims also operated on a number slave children's club feet, cliff palites, and crossed eyes.
Add to that list other questionable men, and you have to start taking a better look at who we allow to come in contact with our women and children.
In the African Congo women are being raped daily. In other parts of Africa, very young
girls are being married off to men who are two, three, four times their age and expected to have children when they, themselves, are still children.
It's a whole lot going on in the world other than the global economic crisis. As times get tighter, I think this may only be the beginning. Stay prayerful and as the slaves us to say, "Keep night watch!"
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By: jukejoint on 12/24/2010 11:28PM
@Redheels: You're absolutely right alot of white folks do have strange sexual perversions.
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By: Snoop on 1/07/2011 4:53AM
@JukeJoint & Redheels
Stop being ridiculous... ALL RACES have perversions that others disagree with, whether it's sodomy, or doggystyle, or transexuality, or HETEROSEXUALITY, or some other ideal people disagree with. It is the ignorance (the ignoring) of these differentials that causes for mass ridicule and societal pains.
It's one thing to disagree, but to pretend like every other race DOESN'T have the same ills... psh, you're out of your friggin' minds. Ever see the Color Purple? Well there ARE Black folks who have messed with children too, get a frickin' grip.
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By: ANGELCEO on 12/22/2010 3:21PM
" Took Advantage Of The Weakest People In A Broken... Society In order To Fulfill His Sick Sexual Desires " - How Many of These Boys Will Become Homosexuals - SEE
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By: wb7ptr on 12/25/2010 1:00AM
I think a better question might be "what kind of men will these boys grow up to be". I've never heard of sexual abuse causing homosexuality ... but I have heard of it being a vicious cycle, creating more of the abuse they themselves experienced.
Someone who sexually abuses children scars them for life, but it's even worse when those children already have experienced a degrading poverty Americans can scarcely imagine. Shame on him is too nice.
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By: Mike on 12/28/2010 6:53PM
To the guy posted below, how could you have never heard of male on male child causing HOMOSEXUALITY. You are trying to be a little too politically correct to be freaking honest. Do some damn research. That was one of the stupidest comments I have seen.
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By: bob on 12/22/2010 3:48PM
How could this man only get 20years! He should be tarred and feathered and sent into the streets of Haiti to be stoned to death!
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By: wisdom on 12/22/2010 4:26PM
Farrahkhan keeeps telling us about wickedness and wicked folks
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