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Day Five in Haiti

By Paul Kendrick '72 at February 6, 2010 | 1:49 am | 747 Comments

Editor’s Note – This is the fifth in a five part series of diary entries written by Fairfield alumnus Paul Kendrick ‘72, who spent the week of January 10th through January 16th in Haiti. Kendrick is a long time advocate for sex abuse victims and a co-founder of Voice of the Faithful in Maine, which formed in response to the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases. He had more...

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Day Four in Haiti

By Paul Kendrick '72 at January 27, 2010 | 11:07 am | 580 Comments

[caption id="attachment_25717" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The police covered the kid's comments about Doug sexually abusing them with yellow paint (on the walls surrounding the Village). "][/caption] Editor’s Note – This is the fourth in a five part series of diary entries written by Fairfield alumnus Paul Kendrick ‘72, who spent the week of more...

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Day Three in Haiti

By Paul Kendrick '72 at January 20, 2010 | 9:00 am | 542 Comments

[caption id="attachment_25368" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This is one of the dormitories at Project Pierre Toussaint. Two of Perlitz's abuse victims told me that, late at night, Perlitz would go from bed to bed and flash the illuminated face of his wristwatch in the boys' faces. Perlitz would then lead one of the boys into the dorm's private more...

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Day Two in Haiti (Pre-Earthquake)

By Paul Kendrick '72 at January 15, 2010 | 2:53 pm | 254 Comments

[caption id="attachment_25249" align="alignright" width="300" caption="More of the alleged abuse victims want to talk about what happened to them (accompanied by Canadian social worker, Katie).(Editor's Note: The faces of the alleged abuse victims have been blurred and darkened to protect their identity.) "][/caption] Warning: This article contains some more...

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Day One in Haiti

By Paul Kendrick '72 at January 13, 2010 | 12:31 pm | 960 Comments

[caption id="attachment_25173" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Paul Kendrick '72 speaks with one of the boys who reported that he was sexually abused by Doug Perlitz in 2007, when he was a 14-year-old student at Project Pierre Toussaint. They met in the Justinien Hospital office (Cap Haitien, Haiti) of a former social worker at the Project's drop-in more...

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