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Jurors Deliberate Defamation Case Involving Freeport Man

Patty Wight
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MPBN

PORTLAND, Maine - Jurors are deliberating in the case of a Freeport man accused of defaming the founder of a Haitian orphanage, accusing him of sexual abuse.

Paul Kendrick has accused Michael Gielenfeld, the founder of St. Joseph's Home for Boys in Port au Prince, of being a serial pedophile, an accusation Gielenfeld vehemently denies.

Gielenfeld says Kendrick is a cyberbully and vigilante whose accusations caused him to be falsely imprisoned for 237 days and cost a charity $2 million in donations.

Patty Wight has been covering the trial and joins Maine Things Considered host Nora Flaherty to help sort out the arguments in the case.