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.
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.
However his lawyer, Stephen Jones, says Mrs Menja the founder of Upendo Children’s Home, forced a false confession from Durham with ‘pseudo-tribal psychological voodoo’ and accused her of running a cult out of her orphanage.
Stephen said, "The events that occurred in Kenya the last maybe five six days that Matt was there frankly reveal some sort of pseudo-tribal psychological voodoo practiced on him, including confiscating his passport, false imprisonment, keeping food from him one day, delay in allowing him to depart from the country, misleading his parents.
"I don’t think Hollywood could make up what happened at this so-called orphanage. We’re on the ground in Kenya now. We’re finding out a lot about these people. This place is right on the outskirts of Nairobi. It’s like some cult over there."
Local authorities in Kenya are also investigating the case and could file charges against Durham, as well.
Mrs Menja and her husband, both Kenyan immigrants who live in Oklahoma – founded Upendo Kids International, a Christian charity, that looks after troubled, unwanted and neglected children in a community on the outskirts of Nairobi. Every year, young Christian missionaries from the United States travel to the orphanage to work with the children.
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.
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.
However his lawyer, Stephen Jones, says Mrs Menja the founder of Upendo Children’s Home, forced a false confession from Durham with ‘pseudo-tribal psychological voodoo’ and accused her of running a cult out of her orphanage.
Stephen said, "The events that occurred in Kenya the last maybe five six days that Matt was there frankly reveal some sort of pseudo-tribal psychological voodoo practiced on him, including confiscating his passport, false imprisonment, keeping food from him one day, delay in allowing him to depart from the country, misleading his parents.
"I don’t think Hollywood could make up what happened at this so-called orphanage. We’re on the ground in Kenya now. We’re finding out a lot about these people. This place is right on the outskirts of Nairobi. It’s like some cult over there."
Local authorities in Kenya are also investigating the case and could file charges against Durham, as well.
Mrs Menja and her husband, both Kenyan immigrants who live in Oklahoma – founded Upendo Kids International, a Christian charity, that looks after troubled, unwanted and neglected children in a community on the outskirts of Nairobi. Every year, young Christian missionaries from the United States travel to the orphanage to work with the children.
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