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Story summary
- Fode Sitafa Mara, a former US embassy employee, received a life sentence for raping two teenage girls in Burkina Faso.
- The 41-year-old American assaulted the girls, aged 13 and 15, during his embassy tenure from 2022 to 2023.
- Prosecutors noted he exploited their vulnerability by promising assistance for their sick mother in exchange for sex.
- Mara was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor and attempted obstruction of justice.
- Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby highlighted the severe consequences of such abuse within the American justice system.
