Douglas Perlitz

Douglas Perlitz, a Colorado man on Tuesday was sentenced 20 years in jail for sexually abusing children. Perlitz founded a school in Haiti to help poor children but instead Perlitz ill-treated them and threatened to expel them. Some of the children faced him in the courtroom and testified Perlitz abusing behavior. In New Heaven, federal court judge, Janet Bond Arterton declared Douglas Perlitz a molester and serial rapist as she imposed the sentence.

40 years old Douglas Perlitz apologized to his victims, acknowledged his horrible crimes and pleaded the judge for leniency in light of his good workings for the poor Caribbean nation. Perlitz said, “They say a convicted sex offender has no future, but I would like to try to prove people wrong. At times I would rather die than carry this burden to be honest”.

In August, Douglas Perlitz admitted that he sexually abused 8 children in Cap Haitien who attended the Project Pierre Toussaint School for dispossessed children. Now 6 of the Perlitz victims who are now young men have come to Connecticut and disclosed the abuse and maltreatment they suffered. One victim informed that in 1998 Perlitz first abused him and said, “He always told me, don’t tell anybody about it. If you tell anybody about it, I will put you out on the street”. Perlitz prior to the sentence statement explained that the major factor in his crimes was his “dark and abusive relationship” with a priest to whom he met while studying in Fairfield University.