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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 06:19 PM Jul 2014

Teen Missionary on Kenya Trip Allegedly Raped Orphans

File this under: "the worst thing you've ever goddamn heard." An Oklahoma teenager allegedly raped and molested children at a Kenyan orphanage while volunteering on a mission trip. If true: Worst Human Alive.

The suspect was volunteering at a Kenyan children's home when he allegedly raped and molested a number of young children.

According to court records, 19-year-old Matthew Durham confessed to raping several young girls, forcing some boys to perform oral sex on him and even making other kids watch.

Nineteen year-old Matthew Durham volunteered at the orphanage in Nairobi several times over the last two years with an organization called Upendo, which "assists neglected Kenyan kids by providing food, housing, clothes and religion." Durham requested to stay at the orphanage with the children in a "overflow bunk" instead of offsite accommodations.

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xfundy

(5,105 posts)
6. Religion is often what wackos hide behind.
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 07:18 PM
Jul 2014

With thieves, liars, cheaters, killers, abusers, and other f'd up manipulators of others.






cbayer

(146,218 posts)
10. Groups that are centered around caring for children are often infiltrated by pedophiles.
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 03:42 AM
Jul 2014

This has absolutely nothing to do with someone hiding behind religion.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
11. According to the news reports, he is being held without bail in Kenya
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 03:54 AM
Jul 2014

and will be tried there. But they also say he could face charges in the US.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
9. This guy volunteered for an agency that has a religious affiliation, but I
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 03:41 AM
Jul 2014

can find nothing to indicate that he personally has any religious affiliation at all.

This is a terrible, terrible thing and the organization should be faulted for lack of oversight, because they are vulnerable to getting these kinds of perverted pedophiles as "volunteers".

But to somehow related this to religion is just plain despicable.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
12. Right. We should probably assume he's an atheist until proven otherwise.
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 10:10 AM
Jul 2014

What. the. fuck.

No one blamed religion for this cbayer, it's just a news story that illustrates a potential problem with religious mission programs. I think we can all agree we hope missionary programs develop a way to deal with their pedophile problems.

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