| A U.S.-based children's rights organization said Friday it will close its Costa Rica office in the wake of a sex scandal involving its local director. Bruce Harris, the Central America director of Casa Alianza, a branch of Covenant House, was fired in September after the group said he admitted to paying for sex with a 19-year-old Honduran who had once been a resident at one of the group's shelters. The organization said in a news released that it decided to close the office as of Nov. 15, and use funds that went into it to help children in crisis shelters throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. |