{"id":8240,"date":"2014-12-16T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2014-12-16T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T13:15:02","slug":"briton-guilty-child-abuse-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/briton-guilty-child-abuse-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton guilty of child abuse in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simon Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A British former public school teacher has been found guilty of sexually abusing street children in Kenya.<\/p>\n

Simon Harris was found guilty of seven charges of indecent and sexual assault on the youngsters in Gilgil in Kenya’s Rift Valley.<\/p>\n

He was also convicted at Birmingham Crown Court of four counts of possessing indecent images of children.<\/p>\n

The offences were committed while Harris was running a gap year charity he set up in the East African country in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Under Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, British citizens can be tried for sexual offences committed abroad against children under 16 if it is also an offence in that country. This is the first time the relevant section has been applied to a case in Africa.<\/p>\n

Prosecuting, Kevin Hegarty QC said Harris lured street boys to his home, known locally as “The Green House”, by offering them food and shelter.<\/p>\n

\"Street<\/a>
Street children, like these boys in Nakuru, also in Kenya’s Rift Valley, are vulnerable to predators like Simon Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He told the jury: “A few years ago there was uproar in Kenya and big displacement of people, and many families were broken up and children abandoned. Many of the children made their way to a town called Gilgil.<\/p>\n

“In Gilgil the children were living chaotic and desperate lives.<\/p>\n

“It’s upon those children that the defendant preyed to encourage them with food, money to come to his house.<\/p>\n

“He would drive to Gilgil in his white Land Rover and pick up boys who lived on the street in appalling conditions.”<\/p>\n

They would stay at Simon Harris’s house for a few days, he said and “he might take a fancy to a particular one and they’d end up in his bed.”<\/p>\n

Giving evidence via satellite link to Birmingham Crown Court, one boy described being attacked by Mr Harris, from Leominster in Herefordshire.<\/p>\n

The victim, who was nine at the time, described to the court Mr Harris “doing bad manners” to him.<\/p>\n

Giving evidence through an interpreter, the boy told the jury that he had been told to lie on the bed.\u00a0 He then described how the former public school housemaster had removed his vest and shorts before subjecting him to a painful ordeal that lasted about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Before the trial, Harris admitted six offences of indecent assault against three boys aged between 13 and 14 when he was a teacher at Shebbear College, Devon, in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

This may be the only case which has come to light, because of the extra-territorial nature of our Sexual Offences Act, but it illustrates that predatory homosexuals from Europe and America are a real danger to African children and why\u00a0African nations need to have strong measures in place to discourage them.<\/p>\n

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