Online cartel luring girls to house parties, orgies exposed

Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi. PHOTO| COURTESY

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 21- Police have warned of an active group that is luring school girls to orgy house parties in Nairobi.

The group uses social media account named Carty-gang-ent to lure the girls for the orgies that run for days.

This followed an incident in which six girls who had been missing for almost a week were found in a house in Nairobi after their parents raised alarm. They are all teenagers in high school.

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti said Saturday preliminary investigations by the DCI have established the girls were lured out of their homes through a social media account named Carty-gang-ent.

“The cartel has been using internationally-registered telephone numbers, although they operate from Nairobi,” said the police.

Kinoti added a number of worried parents from Nairobi’s Kayole and Komarock reported their daughters had gone missing from home for days.

“The parents only reported their daughters were missing after they failed to go home several days later.”

While being interrogated by detectives attached to DCI’s Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit and the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau, the young girls revealed how they were lured from their home and linked up in partying joints in Nairobi.

None of the members of the cartel has been arrested.

The girls are said to be uncooperative in the probe.

“The DCI further warns parents to take keen interest in their children’s activities at home and on social media networks.”

Kinoti said as the investigations go on, they are warning individuals taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to prey on school girls who are at home, especially through the social media networks, that their days are numbered.

The girls told police they were out there breaking boredom from the pandemic restrictions.

This came after a viral video posted on social media by a kin of the missing girl raised alarm.

Police then moved to action before some of the girls emerged at police stations saying they were not hiding.

In the video, the relative said that her cousin and six other teenage girls had been lured from their homes by a caucasian male who had promised them lucrative auditions.

“My cousin and six others were lured from their home in the dead of the night by a man in the guise of auditions that would help them make moneu,” Fiona Kenya captioned the viral video.

The United States telephone number that had been used to communicate with the girls had gone off shortly after they went missing.