CONNECTICUT
News Times
By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
Updated 6:05 pm, Monday, October 20, 2014
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A suspended Jesuit priest who was once Fairfield University’s chaplain has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a teenager a decade ago in Haiti at a now-defunct charity school whose founder is serving a prison sentence for molesting boys.
A lawyer for the 26-year-old plaintiff filed the lawsuit in federal court in Connecticut on Friday, naming the Rev. Paul Carrier, Douglas Perlitz, Fairfield University, the Society of Jesus in New England and other defendants.
The man alleged Carrier and Perlitz sexually abused him when he was a teenage boy at the Project Pierre Toussaint School in Cap-Haiten, a charitable organization supported financially by Fairfield University and others that helped feed and educate poor boys in Haiti.
Carrier, who lives in Weston, Massachusetts, did not return a message seeking comment Monday. His lawyer declined to comment.
Perlitz, of Eagle, Colorado, is a 1992 Fairfield University graduate and a founder of the school. He was arrested in 2009 and later convicted and sentenced to about 20 years in prison for sexually abusing boys there. Prosecutors said Perlitz abused at least 16 children, gave them money, food, clothing and electronics and threatened to take everything away and expel them from the program if they told anyone.
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