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Thursday, February 21, 2008
'Father Teresa' faces sex abuse charges in Haiti



Graeme Hamilton, National Post, with files from
Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, February 21, 2008


MONTREAL - An admirer once described Armand Huard as
"a veritable Quebecois Father Teresa" for his work among Haiti's street
children. In an open letter soliciting donations last December, Mr. Huard
spoke of his joy at seeing children in the Haitian orphanage he ran gain
weight after surviving an outbreak of dysentery.
But a different light was shone on Mr. Huard's decade of work in Haiti
yesterday as he and a fellow aid worker from Quebec, Denis Rochefort,
were charged with sexual crimes against a total of 10 boys, aged 13 to
17.
The two are accused under a section of the Criminal Code that allows
sexual crimes against children to be prosecuted in Canada even if they
are committed abroad. The Crown has opposed the men's release from
custody because of the nature of the alleged crimes. A bail hearing is set
for today.
"These sorts of crimes have been considered particularly serious for several
years," Carmen Rioux, the Crown prosecutor, said in an interview.
She noted that a conviction on a single count carries a mandatory prison
term of at least 45 days and a maximum sentence of 10 years.
"These crimes are alleged to have been committed in a country that is trying
to rebuild," she added. The justice and policing systems remain rudimentary.
"It is a country where it is relatively easy, more than here in Canada,
to commit such crimes," Ms. Rioux said.
Mr. Huard, 64, faces 13 counts of sexual interference and sexual exploitation
of minors. Mr. Rochefort, 59, faces 10 counts on the same charges.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between Dec. 1, 2006, and March 1,
2007, when the two Quebec City residents were working in an orphanage in the
port city of Les Cayes, 200 kilometres from Port au Prince.
The Haitian national police had received reports of sexual abuse at the
orphanage and began an investigation early in 2007 before seeking assistance
from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, which includes officers from
the RCMP. The Surete du Quebec sent an investigator to interview the alleged victims last September.
Little is known about Mr. Rochefort's work in Haiti, but Mr. Huard has kept a higher
profile. In 2004, he told a Radio-Canada reporter he was anxious to return to Haiti despite the upheaval at the time. "For me, Haiti is practically my homeland," he said.

He had formed a partnership with a Quebec aid group, GRANDIR, which encouraged people to donate to his work in Haiti. "You have to see him live among the people, eat and sleep as they do, to realize that a commitment like this is very rare," the group wrote on its Web site. In another passage, they called him "Father Teresa."
In a letter dated last Dec. 28 and addressed to his donors and partners, Mr. Huard announced he had left the orphanage in Les Cayes. He blamed his departure on a lack of support from the local community and international aid groups, and on difficulty obtaining land for a new building.
He said he intended to return to Haiti and solicited donations to cover medical and education costs for Haitian children.
The Canadian Criminal Code was modified 10 years ago to allow for the prosecution of child sex crimes committed abroad. This is the third prosecution brought under
the new provisions.
Benjamin Perrin, an assistant professor of law at the University of British Columbia, said one Canadian has been convicted so far. Donald Bakker, of Vancouver,
pleaded guilty in 2005 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing children in Asia and for abusing prostitutes in Canada.
A second B.C. man, Kenneth Robert Klassen, was charged in 2007 for alleged sex crimes in Cambodia, Colombia and the Philippines. That case has not yet gone to trial.
ghamilton@nationalpost.com


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