Corrigan Clay, a U.S. pastor who moved to Haiti and adopted two orphans, has been indicted for child sex abuse after “engaging in illicit sexual conduct” with one of his children.
Clay is the co-founder of the “Apparent Project”, a non-profit charity organization established by his ex-partner Shelley Jean.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has visited and supported the group, who is also believed to have helped fund another of the pair’s entities, Papillion Enterprise, through Clinton Foundation grants.
Corrigan Clay is a U.S. pastor who ran the "Apparent Project" in Haiti, adopted orphans, and was just arrested for child sex abuse.
He was supported by the Clintons and numerous celebrities.
MSM and large social media accounts are not talking about this
Why is that? pic.twitter.com/rMJozK3bJg
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) March 14, 2022
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Corrigan Clay was just arrested for child sex abuse
In 2012, he wrote of his project adopting orphans in Haiti:https://t.co/a3lAthbHxo pic.twitter.com/c25v5Wn0cN
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) March 12, 2022
Clay was arrested March 10th this year by federal agents, according to an unsealed indictment first released on Thursday by The Daily Beast.
He is being prosecuted by the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, documents filed in Pittsburgh federal court state.
Clay sexually abused the unidentified child from January 2014 to December 2017, the indictment states. No further details are provided in the filing, except that the alleged victim was under 18. But Clay’s ex-wife, with whom he had two biological children in addition to the pair they adopted, told The Daily Beast on Friday that the illicit conduct involved one of their own kids.
Shelley Jean Clay, who split from Clay more than a decade ago and now operates a Haitian-focused crafts market in Florida, declined to provide further details about the allegations, emphasizing that she was not involved and had no idea what was happening.
“It was my child, but I don’t think I am at liberty to talk about it because the court case is in process,” she told The Daily Beast. “I’m not opposed to the truth coming out, but I don’t want to jeopardize the case.”
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) March 12, 2022
The National Pulse discussed the Clinton connection:
Prior to this, Clay, Jean, and CEO Marilyn Monaghan founded Apparent Project, designed to “establish childcare for working parents, quality early education, and job skills that provide opportunities for the poor in Haiti.” As with Papillion Enterprise, the Apparent Project has been visited and supported by former president Bill Clinton, alongside various other celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian, displayed in a now-deleted blog post from Clay in 2012:
“Donna Karan, The Gap, Macy’s, Chan Luu, and Disney have marketed our jewelry, and our celebrity clients have included Bill Clinton, Oprah, Rainn Wilson, Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello, Petra Nemcova, Ben Stiller, and Kim Kardashian.”
– Corrigan Clay, 2012
Clay’s now-deleted post also included a letter, dated 2016, from a deprived seventeen-year-old Haitian girl expressing her desire to “make love” with him in order to aid her sister with access to medical surgery. Though Clay had expressed in his blog post that he helped the teenage girl without the requirement of sexual deeds, he further admitted to lingering on her proposal due to personal loneliness.
He actually published stuff like this on his blog
Source:https://t.co/20hKlW7tLH pic.twitter.com/R4ckccO1c8
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) March 12, 2022
The Clinton Foundation has long-boasted of its ties to Papillion and related groups over the past decade. It was announced in 2016 that Papillion had “grown from less than 100 employees and approximately $150,000 in annual revenues when we first started working with her, including a Foundation investment of $150,000, to now over 300 employees and over $1.2 million a year in revenues” – partly courtesy of the Clinton Foundation.
Corrigan Clay faces up to thirty years in prison if convicted.
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