Dominican authorities have arrested a Canadian missionary charged with sexually abusing orphan teens in neighboring Haiti, the latest in a string of men accused of taking advantage of Haiti's deep poverty to have sex with minors.
Joao Jose Correira Duarte, a Portuguese-born orphanage administrator, was arrested Tuesday in the resort city of Puerto Plata by Dominican drug agents carrying out a Canadian warrant.

He is expected to be extradited to Canada this week, said Dominican national drug agency spokesman Roberto Lebron.

According to the agency, Correira began working in Haiti in 1995. He faces charges related to abusing at least 12 youths aged 12 to 17 in hotels in the Haitian capital, allegedly offering favors like clothes or paying rent for their relatives elsewhere in the country.

Dominican officials say a warrant was issued for his arrest in August, and that they were advised in late September that he was in the country and should be arrested.

They say he had been operating a diving school at a hotel in Puerto Plata, a beach resort city on the country's north coast popular with foreigners. Officials said Correira had previously worked as a waiter in the area.

It is not clear if he is suspected of similar abuses in the Dominican Republic.

Several men have been arrested for sex crimes involving Haiti's poorly regulated orphanages in recent years. Many youths there are not orphans at all, but sent by parents who cannot support them in hopes they will get a better life.

Two men from Quebec pleaded guilty in late 2008 to sexually abusing teenage boys at an orphanage in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes after a two-year investigation.

Armand Huard, 66, who'd been nicknamed "Papa Theresa" in the Canadian press for his aid work in Haiti, and co-worker Denis Rochefort, 59, were sentenced to three and two years in prison respectively.

Earlier this month, a Colorado man, Douglas Perlitz, pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he sexually abused nine boys at a school he founded near the northern city of Cap-Haitien.

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Associated Press writer Jonathan M. Katz reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Source : http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1088964&lang=eng_news

Is that why wild eyed Cabarete William has been missing???/???

hahah! just kidding....

I don't think he was that bad.

They should cut his d*ck

That goes for all sex offenders!!!!!!!!!!

yes

agreed!!!