Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A Canadian humanitarian aid worker, pleaded guilty to sexual assault on young orphans in Haiti, and was sentenced to three years in jail. Armand Huard, 64, admitted culpability on 10 counts of sexually touching eight victims aged 13 to 16 years old at the time of the incidents. He was arrested in February along with Denis Rochefort, 59, who was convicted on Friday of similar charges. Rochefort was sentenced to two years in jail. The pair, who had worked for years in Cayes on the southwest side of the Caribbean island, was charged under a provision of the criminal code that allows Canadians to be prosecuted in Canada for child sex crimes in other countries.
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