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Former US Missionary Jailed For Abusing Kenya Orphans

Durham, 21-year-old volunteer, handed 40-year sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing children.

A former missionary from Oklahoma convicted of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya was sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison.

Matthew Lane Durham, 21, had faced up to 30 years on each of four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places was sentenced on Monday.

He was also ordered to pay restitution of $15,863.

Durham had served as a volunteer at the Upendo Children’s Home in Nairobi since 2012.

Prosecutors alleged he targeted orphans at the orphanage – which specialises in caring for neglected children – between April and June 2014.

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