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Arold Jean, a spokesperson for the Cap-Haitien police
department, said U.S. authorities arrested Thomas Osbeck there
on Sept. 30. He did not identify the U.S. agency involved.
He said authorities reviewed the suspect's cell phone and found
explicit messages sent to children. Jean added that at least a
dozen children underwent medical examinations.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Osbeck had an attorney. An
Associated Press journalist was barred from visiting him in jail
on Friday.
Jean said Osbeck did not have the required paperwork to operate
an orphanage in Cap-Haitien, where Haitian authorities found at
least 12 minors. He said he expects Osbeck to be extradited to
the United States.
Osbeck was detained shortly after U.S. authorities charged
Maylon Foshee, 23, of Mansfield, Louisiana, with sexually
abusing minors during mission trips to Haiti.
Authorities said Foshee traveled to Haiti numerous times between
2023 and 2026 while working with a ministry in the coastal city
of Gonaives and allegedly sexually abused several minors under
his care, including those who lived with him or received
financial support from him.
Last year, a jury in Miami convicted Michael Geilenfeld of
sexually abusing boys at an orphanage he founded in
Port-au-Prince.
Geilenfeld had pleaded not guilty. The orphanage, founded in
1985, was one of several that he operated in Haiti and the
Dominican Republic. It was closed in 2015.
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