{"id":223218,"date":"2024-10-29T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/?p=223218"},"modified":"2024-10-29T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:00:52","slug":"kenyan-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-raping-85-year-old-american-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/kenyan-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-raping-85-year-old-american-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Man Sentenced to Prison for Raping 85-Year-Old American Grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Muniu Wambugu, 66, is the most recent Kenyan to be incarcerated in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The former employee of a Johnson County nursing home was sentenced to 17 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 85-year-old resident. Wambugu faced felony rape charges in Johnson County district court starting in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The assault was initially reported on January 21, 2022, at The Heritage of Overland Park, a facility that cares for seniors with Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague discovered Wambugu and the resident partially undressed in her room the night before, which led to his arrest, as documented in court records.<\/p>\n<p>The 85-year-old was taken to a local hospital for examination, where she recounted that she was nearly asleep when Wambugu attacked her.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he faced felony mistreatment charges in August of this year for his actions toward a care home resident.<\/p>\n<p>Wambugu pleaded guilty to both charges, and the sentences for each will be served consecutively, totaling 208 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Muniu Wambugu, 66, is the most recent Kenyan to be incarcerated in the United States. The former employee of a Johnson County nursing home was sentenced to 17 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 85-year-old resident. Wambugu faced felony rape charges in Johnson County district court starting in January 2022. The assault was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6069,"featured_media":136742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[138453],"class_list":["post-223218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-kenyan-crime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223219,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223218\/revisions\/223219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}