By Bob Connors
NBC Connecticut
December 16, 2010
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The former Connecticut man convicted of sexually abusing children at a school in Haiti, also threatened to kill a prosecutor, federal authorities said Thursday.
In August, Douglas Perlitz, who now lives in Colorado, pleaded guilty to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with eight children at the Project Pierre Toussaint School in Cap-Haitien between 1998 and 2008.
Federal prosecutors cited the alleged threat in court papers filed in federal court in New Haven Thursday. Authorities claim Perlitz made a threat in a July phone call and that his brother vowed to take revenge against prosecutors.
The government's attorneys are asking a judge to send Perlitz to prison for more than 19 years when he is sentenced Dec. 21.
Perlitz's lawyer, William Dow III, said his client had no plan to kill a prosecutor and that the comments reflected anger and frustration over the case. Neither Perlitz nor his brother have been charged in connection with the alleged threats.
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