A former US embassy employee was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday for repeatedly raping two desperate teen girls while he was working at the embassy in Burkina Faso.
Fode Sitafa Mara, 41, an American citizen, was employed at the US Embassy in the impoverished West African country when he repeatedly sexually assaulted the two girls, age 13 and 15, over the course of a year, prosecutors said.
Mara was employed at the embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2022 and 2023, living in taxpayer-funded embassy housing near the girls’ squalid slum, which had no running water, prosecutors said.
A former US embassy employee was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday for repeatedly raping two desperate teen girls while he was working at the embassy in Burkina Faso, the feds announced.
Fode Sitafa Mara, 41, an American citizen, was employed at the US Embassy in the impoverished West African country when he repeatedly sexually assaulted the two girls, age 13 and 15, over the course of a year, prosecutors said.
Mara was employed at the embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2022 and 2023, living in taxpayer-funded embassy housing near the girls’ squalid slum, which had no running water, prosecutors said.
He gave the girls a phone so he could contact them to come over when his wife was at work. After he tried to get his housekeeper to lie to investigators to help him keep his crimes under wraps, the feds claimed.
