Kenyan man who drove off in a sleeping woman’s car facing rape charges in the US
A 24-year-old Kenyan man who resides in Kansas City has been charged with rape. He is accused of jumping into a stranger’s car outside a nightclub and driving away with a sleeping woman and sexually assaulting her by the side of the road.
Godfrey K. Kirui was arrested at the scene of the reported attack early on Sunday morning and has been charged with rape, felonious restraint, assault and tampering with a motor vehicle.
According to Kansas City police, an officer on patrol shortly before 3 am Sunday encountered Kirui and a 22-year-old woman in a vehicle parked by the road.
WOMAN SCREAMING
According to court records, the officer heard the woman scream, “Help me, help me, help me,” and saw Kirui throw her out of the vehicle through the open passenger door.
The woman told police that Kirui had raped her. She said that she had been sitting in the vehicle, which belonged to a friend, outside Club Aura at 3832 Main St. when Kirui jumped into the driver’s seat and drove her away.
She said she tried to fight Kirui but he struck her in the head. Kirui is in police custody at the Jackson County jail and his bond was set at Sh1.5 million ($150,000) cash.
