Two Canadian Aid Workers Charged With Sex Crimes in Haiti Get Bail
Posted on: Thursday, 21 February 2008, 21:00 CST
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
QUEBEC - A Canadian aid worker charged with sexually abusing children in a Haitian orphanage told his bail hearing Thursday he never touched young boys.
Denis Rochefort, 59, told the court he regretted what happened in Haiti but he had only ever been involved with young men.
Rochefort and 64-year-old Armand Huard - who was once dubbed the "Quebecois Father Teresa" - each face multiple counts of sexual assault under a rarely used law allowing international child-sex crime prosecutions.
Police say the allegations involve 10 boys between the ages of 13 and 16.
Rochefort and Huard, both of Quebec City, were freed on $2,000 bail each and forbidden from contacting anyone in Haiti by phone, fax or e-mail. They are also forbidden from being around minors.
Quebec provincial police say Haitian police received complaints last year the men had been abusing children at an orphanage in Les Cayes.
A Quebec charity Internet site named Association Grandir describes Huard as "a veritable Quebecois Father Teresa" but says he was better known to Haitian orphans as "Papi" over 12 years of aid work.
The men will return to court on April 11.
Source: Canadian Press
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