At 73, Michael Geilenfeld could have cut a plea deal to reduce his potentially long prison sentence on federal charges of sexually abusing numerous boys in Haiti. But the American founder of a Port-au-Prince orphanage gambled on a jury trial in Miami federal court — and lost.

A jury in Miami has convicted the founder of an orphanage in Haiti of sexually abusing boys at the facility in Port-au-Prince

A federal jury in Miami convicted Michael Karl Geilenfeld for sexually abusing boys at an orphanage he founded in Haiti.

A federal jury in Miami convicted a Colorado man Thursday for sexually abusing boys at the orphanage he founded in Haiti.