Simon Harris: Kenyan boys recall how Briton abused them
2,654 views · Published 26 February 2015 · 2:37 · Indexed 22 September 2026
Channel: BBC News Africa · 2015 · News & Politics
A British charity boss who abused vulnerable street children in Kenya has been sentenced in the UK to 17 years and four months in jail. Simon Harris was convicted of eight charges of indecent and sexual assault on youngsters in Gilgil, in Kenya's Rift valley and four of possessing indecent images of children. The court heard that he would lure boys to his house in Kenya by offering them food, shelter and money.The offences were committed while Harris was running a gap year charity that he set up in Kenya in the 1990s. BBC Africa's Gladys Njoroje has more...
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