Children’s home wants ‘rape monster’ locked up for life

Upendo Children‘s home in Gachororo, Juja. Two years ago, a US-based missionary presented himself at the centre as a volunteer, little did they know they had welcomed a child molester. [PHOTO: KAMAU MAICHUHIE/Standard]

When Mathew Lane Durham came to Upendo Children’s home in Gachororo, Juja on April 30, 2014 for a three-month stint as a volunteer, he was welcomed with love. The young man had a lovely personality and with baby face, no one imagined he was a calculating paedophile.

Last week, a US court handed the 21-year-old missionary from Oklahoma a 40-year jail term for sexually abusing children at the home.