De : IGNATIUS GROUP
À : IGNATIUS GROUP
Objet : Catholic Order of Malta is added as a defendant in civil lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court on behalf of 20 Haitian children who were sexually abused at Malta sponsored school in Haiti
Envoyé : 17 mar, 2012 13:08
IGNATIUS GROUP____ Commentary by Paul Kendrick Court filing attached: FEDERAL LAWSUIT PUTS VULNERABLE AND ABUSED HAITIAN STREET CHILDREN ON LEVEL PLAYING FIELD WITH "PROMINENT, ESTEEMED" CATHOLICS WHO IGNORED THE VICTIMS' CRIES FOR HELP AND CALLED THEM LIARS. ORDER OF MALTA MEMBERS WILL BE FORCED TO TAKE THE WITNESS STAND IN U.S. FEDERAL COURT. Order of Malta members, Jeannie Tisdale, DM, Thomas Tisdale, KM, Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., KM, Madeline Lacovara, DM, Philip Lacovara, KM and Hope Carter, DM. called the Haiti abuse victims liars, defended and protected a child molester, and caused the school in Haiti to permanently close its doors, forcing the children back to the dangerous streets with nothing to eat and no safe place to sleep. "When all is said and done, when the defendants have exhausted their legal maneuvering, their hardball legal tactics, and their attempts to hide behind legal technicalities, they will all be rounded up in a United States federal courtroom where they will come face to face with a judge, a jury and the abused Haitian children." Paul Kendrick, Freeport, Maine Background: In December 2010, Douglas Perlitz was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Connecticut to almost 20 years in prison for sexually abusing children at a school in Haiti. Perlitz was the former executive director of Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. PPT was sponsored by the Order of Malta, the New England Society of Jesus, Fairfield University, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport and the Haiti Fund, a non-profit based in Connecticut. 1) While visiting the U.S. about 6 years ago, Robinson Gedeus, Perlitz's top aide at Project Pierre Toussaint, stayed for an extended period of time with Jeannie and Tom Tisdale in Fairfield, CT (the Tisdales celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in Haiti with Perlitz and Father Paul Carrier). The Tisdales arranged for Robinson to intern at the Tomlinson School in Fairfield, CT. Robinson told a close friend of the Tisdales, Barbara O'Brien (a teacher at the Tomlinson School in Fairfield), that Perlitz was sexually abusing kids at Project Pierre Toussaint. O'Brien did not report the abuse to law enforcement authorities. It would be naive and irresponsible for anyone to think that O'Brien didn't tell the Tisdale's about the abuse. 2) In February 2006, Robinson confronted Perlitz in Haiti and told him to stop abusing the students. In response, Order of Malta Chaplain and Connecticut Area Malta Spirituality Director, Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., ignored Robinson for the next two years. (Carrier and Robinson were very close friends prior to this) 3) In May 2008, when the then chairman of the Haiti Fund instructed Perlitz not to return to PPT because credible allegations of child sex abuse had been brought against him, Dame of Malta, Board of Councillors member and director of Malta's Youth Pilgrimage, Hope Carter, secretly flew to Haiti for the sole purpose of embezzling Perlitz's computers out of Haiti. By her actions, Carter was protecting an accused child molester by removing evidence that would be used against Perlitz in a criminal trial. It was not until weeks later that Carter, when confronted by the Board of The Haiti Fund about her actions, resigned her position as a Haiti Fund board member. Incredibly, Carter still serves on the Board of Councillors of Malta and the boards of other local Catholic charities in Fairfield County. Due to pressure from child protection advocates, Carter was removed from the the Board of Directors of the Malta sponsored, Sacre Coeur Hospital, in Milot , Haiti, not far from Cap Haitien and the PPT Village. 4) Malta members, Carter and Carrier are already named as defendants in the lawsuit. 5) The letter to PPT donors that was signed by these six Malta members and 5 other individuals consisted of 11 bullet points of total fabrication. The mailing of this letter could only be interpreted as a way to completely destroy the goodwill and good name of PPT. After the mailing of this letter, donations to PPT completely dried up and the program was forced to close. This letter was sent on the heels of a letter mailed to PPT donors by the Haiti Fund. 6] Several weeks later in September 2008, yet another Order of Malta member, Attorney Philip Lacovara, told Haiti Fund board members that he "knew for sure" that Perlitz didn't abuse children because he, Lacovara, was the chairman of the Priest Sexual Misconduct Committee for the Diocese of Bridgeport and "he would know." Advocates have asked the Diocese of Bridgeport to review all sex abuse cases in which Lacovara participated as a board member. 7) These six Malta members paraded Doug Perlitz to many Malta events, including President Joseph Miller's white-tie investiture dinner, during the same period of time that Perlitz was a publicly accused child molester. 8) Most unbelievable, however, is the fact that, after learning of all these facts and probably many more, President Miller's first act as president relating to PPT and Haiti was in April 2010 to award Hope Carter a public commendation in Lourdes, France for her "extraordinary work in Haiti." The reckless and self serving acts by the Tisdale's, Carrier, Carter and the Lacovara's, among others, destroyed it all. It is an indisputable fact the certain members of the Order of Malta put their own self serving interests ahead of protecting and caring for the most vulnerable children in the world. Paul Kendrick Freeport, Maine 207-838-1319 http://www.ctpost.com/betrayal/ http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/New-Haiti-suits-level-claims-against-Rev-Carrier-244084.php
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