Daniel John Pye, 36, an Ashdown, Arkansas, resident was sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment, to be followed by 25 years of supervised release, for traveling in foreign commerce with the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, also known as child sex tourism.
Pye, originally of Bradenton, Florida, was convicted in November 2017, after a week-long trial before U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro, of three counts of traveling in foreign commerce with the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2423(b).
According to court records and the evidence presented at trial, Pye was a missionary who operated an orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti, from the years of 2006 through 2012. The orphanage provided shelter, clothing, food, and school tuition to children without families and to children whose families could not afford to feed or otherwise support their children.
Pye obtained financial support for the orphanage through his connections with numerous religious organizations and other nonprofit groups in the United States. During his time operating the orphanage, Pye would regularly sexually abuse the female residents of his orphanage, including girls as young as six years old.
As described by the Haitian victims during trial, Pye routinely sexually abuse his victims both at the orphanage and while at the beach.
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think- ago
He got 40 years. That's pretty cool.
Please note the emphasis:
SebuttYopick ago
Mother Teresa and Haiti? https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=V4nCaxHN-cY
QuoteUnquoteArt ago
Connections. Interesting.
think- ago
Isn't it? I wonder who these 'religious organizations' and NGOs were.
RagingShieldMaiden ago
LDS?
Gone_N8ive ago
LDS don't do short-term missions. Nor di they go anywhere unsafe.
RagingShieldMaiden ago
They went to the eastern bloc and were/still are there when Dyncorp was doing their thing. They serve as eyes/ears for CIA overseas.
This I was told by a former Mormon sent to eastern Europe and saw a lot of paperwork go across the mission president's desk.