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	Help May Finally Reach Haitian Boys CT Post December 13, 2010 http://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Help-may-finally-reach-Haitian-boys-878785.php To the children in Haiti left behind by the closure of a school once operated by convicted sex abuser Douglas Perlitz, a new chance for help might be near. It can't come too quickly. Fairfield University and the Order of Malta, which provided the original grant to open Project Pierre Toussaint, are in talks to help finance a five-year, $850,000 project to help feed, educate and counsel 82 Haitian boys turned away when the facility closed. It has taken far too long, but the disaster Perlitz left in his wake may finally see some improvement. Perlitz, a Fairfield University graduate, pleaded guilty to abusing children at the school in Haiti's second-largest city. The university, while not directly involved in the facility, gave Perlitz financial support over the years, and calls for officials to help the abandoned students may be having an impact. It never should have taken this long. The school founded by Perlitz, who will be sentenced next week, shut down a year and a half ago. The plan, which has yet to be finalized, would not reopen the school, but would help feed, educate and counsel the boys left behind. Reports show most of the boys returned to the street to beg after the school closed. There is no way to right the wrongs Perlitz committed. But everyone who supported him in what they thought was a noble endeavor has a responsibility -- to see that people they thought they were helping don't suffer needlessly. This effort, belatedly, will help accomplish that.
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