Matthew Lane Durham, a 19-year-old missionary from Oklahoma, has been accused of sexually abusing up to 10 African orphans while volunteering at the shelter where they lived in Nairobi, Kenya.
The teenager was arrested last Thursday, 17 July at his parents’ home in Edmond, Oklahoma, after he fled Kenya when he was confronted with the sex abuse allegations, Daily Mail reports.
Matthew Lane Durham with the kids from the orphanage
Eunice Menja, the founder of Upendo Children’s Home told the FBI that Durham admitted to assaulting between four and ten children, aged four to ten – including one who is HIV-positive, while volunteering at the orphanage between April and June of this year.
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According to the federal charges filed against him, he molested several of the children some as young as four years old, forcing them to perform sex acts on him. He also allegedly wrote a sickening confession for Mrs Menja in which he detailed horrific acts of sexual abuse against both boys and girls. He was said to have confessed how he forced one young girl to have sex with him several times.
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