OKLAHOMA
New York Daily News
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2014
BY NINA GOLGOWSK
A 19-year-old Oklahoma missionary has been charged with traveling to Kenya to engage in sex acts with disadvantaged children as young as 4 years old.
Matthew Lane Durham, of Edmond, faces life behind bars after allegedly admitting to the sickening abuse while volunteering at Upendo Children’s Home in Nairobi this spring.
It was during Durham’s fourth visit to the home between April and June that he sexually abused both boys and girls between ages 4 and 10. One of the kids is HIV positive, according to a FBI criminal complaint unsealed Friday.
The teen was confronted by the home’s founder after a caretaker grew suspicious of Durham’s behavior around the children, the Edmond Sun reported.
When the children were pulled aside, they allegedly described him as inappropriately touching them.
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