Oklahoma Missionary Accused of Raping Children at African Orphanage Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison | KTLA

An Oklahoma missionary who volunteered at a children’s home in Kenya was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday for sexually assaulting three girls and a boy while working at the facility, according to court documents.

Matthew Lane Durham, 21, was sentenced to four decades in prison by Judge David L. Russell on four counts of “engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places,” according to court documents.

“In a span of just 33 days,” prosecutors wrote to the court, Durham “raped three girls — ages 5, 9 and 15 — at least eight times. During that same time period, he sexually molested a 12-year-old boy twice.”
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A jury found Durham guilty on seven counts of the charge in June, court records show. Russell acquitted Durham on three of the counts in January, writing that the prosecutors “failed to establish that he engaged in a ‘sexual act’ ” with the children identified in those charges.

Durham’s attorney, Stephen Jones, told CNN on Monday that he plans to appeal the court’s decision.

Oklahoma Missionary Accused of Raping Children at African Orphanage Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison | KTLA