HAITI
Caribbean 360
WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday March 2, 2017 – An American man who ran a missionary orphanage in Haiti has been charged for allegedly having sex with girls who resided there.
Prosecutors say 35-year-old Daniel John Pye traveled from Florida to Haiti on multiple occasions between 2008 and 2011 for the purpose of sexually abusing minors. Over the period, they say, he sexually assaulted at least four victims between the ages of six and 14.
He has been charged with “traveling in foreign commerce with the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor”, the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer.
Pye began running the missionary orphanage that cared for, fed and educated orphans as well as underprivileged children with living parents, in the southern coastal city Jacmel about 11 years ago. It was affiliated with Haitian Children’s Home, but following a financial conflict, he was fired by the board of Haitian Children’s Home. However, Pye continued to run the orphanage with alternative funding.
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