{"id":75158,"date":"2022-10-28T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/former-un-official-jailed-for-drugging-raping-women"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:49:27","slug":"former-un-official-jailed-for-drugging-raping-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/former-un-official-jailed-for-drugging-raping-women","title":{"rendered":"Former UN official jailed for drugging, raping women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Karim Elkorany, a former United Nations (UN) official who raped women, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The acts were committed over a decade during humanitarian missions to different countries.<\/p>\n<p>In the incidents which occurred in Iraq, Egypt, the United States, among others, Elkorany drugged his victims to cloud their memories.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old sexually assaulted at least 20 women, most of them were close friends.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists, scholars, and UN employees were among nine who spoke at his Manhattan Federal Court sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The victims said they were haunted by not knowing details of what happened to them or the drugs Elkorany used to knock them out.<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old reporter, identified as Victim 1, was raped while on assignment in Kurdistan in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>She narrated how Elkorany parked his vehicle in the garage of an apartment building, a place she never agreed to visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next memories I had was of being sexually assaulted. I want to say no, but I can\u2019t speak. I can\u2019t move. I\u2019m unable to escape\u201d, she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Elkorany pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. security agency began a probe in 2017. Elkorany, who resigned from the UN in 2018, was arrested in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan Federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald noted that the rapist would have gotten life in prison had he been convicted in New Jersey or Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drugging was totally reckless. Mr. Elkorany made no effort to learn whether the drugs he used on his victims would cause permanent harm\u201d, the jurist said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords of apology cannot undo the damage that I have so clearly caused. I am deeply, deeply sorry\u201d, Elkorany begged.<\/p>\n<p>He worked in international aid, and foreign relations from 2005, and joined UNICEF in Iraq from 2013 to 2016 before moving to communications.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz revealed that the convict infected a few of the victims with sexually transmitted diseases because he did not use protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElkorany admitted to drugging at least 19 victims, and sexually assaulting at least 13 of them while they were unconscious\u201d, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>UN spokesperson Ste\u0301phane Dujarric praised the women for their courage and assured that the body would get tougher to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Charles Imene Oliha, a South Sudan attache\u0301 to the UN, fled America after a rape accusation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Karim Elkorany, a former United Nations (UN) official who raped women, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. The acts were committed over a decade during humanitarian missions to different countries. In the incidents which occurred in Iraq, Egypt, the United States, among others, Elkorany drugged his victims to cloud their memories. 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