Records: Texas missionary admits to sexually assaulting boys at orphanage

Tyler White - Laredo Morning Times

Gerald Dean Campbell, a man from Texas, in the U.S., who served as a missionary in Malawi was arrested for “engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places” and has admitted to sexually abusing 11 children at a children’s home in Malawi where he served as general manager from 1997-2009. Campbell resigned in 2009 when a board member learned of his “immoral sexual behavior,” according to the article. Federal investigators were notified through a tip line in 2014 and proceeded to interview one of the victims, now in his early 20s. According to the article, Campbell claimed that he abused the boys because “I knew I could.”