OKLAHOMA
U.S. News
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal jury convicted an Oklahoma man on Friday of illicit sexual conduct with children at a Kenyan orphanage that specializing in caring for neglected children.
Matthew Lane Durham, 20, was found guilty of multiple federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and faces decades in prison at sentencing.
He was acquitted of several other charges that alleged he left Oklahoma with the intent to sexually abuse children.
Durham had served as a volunteer at the Upendo Children’s Home in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi since 2012. He was on his fourth visit when he was accused of sexually assaulting children between April and June 2014.
“The wolf in sheep’s clothing got among the lambs,” Assistant U.S. Attorney David Petermann told jurors during closing arguments Thursday.
The jury deliberated for about nine hours over two days.
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