Haiti police say US missionary detained following sex abuse allegations at orphanage

A U.S. missionary, Thomas Osbeck, has been detained in Haiti over allegations of child abuse at an illegal orphanage, according to Haitian police. Osbeck was arrested in Cap-Haitien after U.S. authorities charged Maylon Foshee, a 23-year-old from Louisiana, with sexually abusing minors during mission trips to Haiti between 2023 and 2026.

Osbeck allegedly did not have the required paperwork to operate an orphanage in Cap-Haitien, where Haitian authorities found at least 12 minors. The orphanage, founded in 1985, was one of several that Geilenfeld operated in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before it was closed in 2014. Osbeck is expected to be extradited to the United States.

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