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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma teen facing a three-count indictment that accuses him of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to be detained...
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OKLAHOMA CITY An Oklahoma teen facing a three-count indictment that accuses him of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to be detained until his...
View ArticleFormer missionary tells jurors he confessed out of fear
Matthew Lane Durham, 20, is accused in Oklahoma City federal court of 17 counts of rape and molestation of eight children while on a mission in 2014 at an African orphanage. The trial could conclude...
View ArticleJury Finds Edmond Man Guilty of Seven Counts of Engaging in Illicit Sexual...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Oklahoma City Field Office) OKLAHOMA CITY, OK-Today, a federal jury found MATTHEW LANE DURHAM, 20, from Edmond, Oklahoma, guilty on seven counts of engaging...
View ArticleKenya orphanage sex abuse case goes to Oklahoma jury
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal jurors on Thursday began deliberating whether an Oklahoma man charged with sexually abusing children at a Kenya orphanage was a "wolf in sheep's clothing" or the victim...
View ArticleTrial gets underway for man accused of abusing Kenyan kids
Reprints + - FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 4, 2014 file photo, Stephen Jones, attorney for Matthew Lane Durham, talks with the media outside the Federal Courthouse in Oklahoma City, following a detention...
View ArticleOklahoma man convicted of illegal sexual contact at Kenyan orphanage
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A jury at a federal court in Oklahoma City on Friday found an Oklahoma man charged with molesting orphans in Kenya during his Christian missionary work guilty...
View ArticleTrial set to begin for man accused in Kenyan child sex abuse case
by Kyle Schwab Kenyan children allegedly sexually abused by an Edmond missionary at a Nairobi orphanage in 2014 are scheduled to testify next week in a nearly empty Oklahoma City courtroom. Matthew...
View ArticleTrial begins for Edmond man accused of sex acts with children on Kenyan...
Prosecutors on Wednesday opened their case against Matthew Lane Durham, an Edmond,S missionary accused of sexually abusing Kenyan children at a Nairobi orphanage in 2014 by reading from his signed...
View ArticleMother of Oklahoma man testifies at child sex abuse trial
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The mother of a 20-year-old Oklahoma man charged with molesting Kenyan orphans testified Tuesday that her son was frightened when the allegations were leveled against him and that...
View ArticleProsecutor: Oklahoma man detailed Kenya sex assaults on kids
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An Oklahoma man accused of sexually abusing several children at a Kenyan orphanage where he volunteered confessed to his misdeeds in writing, a federal prosecutor told jurors...
View ArticleJurors did not reach a verdict Thursday in the trial of a former Edmond...
The jury did not reach a verdict in the trial of a former Edmond missionary accused of sexually abusing Kenyan children. They will continue deliberations Friday. by Kyle Schwab Modified: June 18, 2015...
View ArticleTrial set for Oklahoma man accused of abusing Kenyan orphans
Add comment Reprints + - FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2014 file photo, Stephen Jones, attorney for Matthew Lane Durham, talks with the media outside the Federal Courthouse in Oklahoma City, following a...
View ArticleOklahoma man tells court he has no memories of molesting Kenyan children
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man charged with sexually molesting children at a Kenyan orphanage told a U.S. federal court on Wednesday he was innocent but believed he was...
View ArticleOklahoma man says he has no memories of molesting Kenyan kids
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma man charged with sexually molesting children at a Kenyan orphanage told a U.S. federal court on Wednesday he was innocent but believed he was possessed by an evil spirit...
View ArticleJurors weigh case of Oklahoma man charged with molesting Kenyan orphans
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A jury at a federal court in Oklahoma City began deliberations on Thursday in the case of an Oklahoma man charged with molesting eight orphans in Kenya when...
View ArticleProsecutors rest in Kenyan child sex abuse trial in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors questioned their final witnesses Monday, some of them children who testified through an interpreter in a closed courtroom, before resting their case against an...
View ArticleOklahoma man denies charges in Kenya child sex abuse case
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya testified Wednesday about his Christian faith and his onetime belief that he was possessed by a demon...
View ArticleFormer missionary’s guilty verdict ‘cannot bring back the innocence’
Jurors on Friday found former Edmond missionary Matthew Lane Durham guilty of illicit sexual conduct against seven Kenyan children while at an African orphanage in 2014. A judge will decide his...
View ArticleOklahoma man convicted of illicit sexual conduct in Kenya
OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal jury convicted an Oklahoma man on Friday of illicit sexual conduct with children at a Kenyan orphanage that specializes in caring for neglected children. Matthew Lane Durham,...
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