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Former Georgia Tech fraternity president sentenced for rape

Members of the very fraternity he belonged to helped launch the investigation into his crimes.

ATLANTA -- Christian Kahf met his ex-girlfriend on the Georgia Tech campus back in November 2017 where he admitted to everything.

"What happened was not consensual that night," Kahf said. "I raped you more than once and I wish I never had."

Those words came from her attack, but served as an opportunity for a victim to get justice. Kahf had no idea that she was recording - or that several undercover officers were nearby. In his admission, he claimed to have raped the victim multiple times when they were together - and while she was unconscious.

Kahf was arrested in the next five days. Now, more than half a year later, he has been convicted of rape and sentenced to 20 years - seven of which will be served in prison.

But it all may have never happened had it not been for the suspect's own fraternity brothers in Kappa Sigma a month earlier. The group went to police in October after Kahf admitted in broad terms to his actions.

"I am a monster," he said before emotionally leaving the room. "I am a rapist and a pedophile."

The young men heard him admit to crimes of rape and also claim he had an inappropriate relationship with a 7-year-old child. But when police interviewed him, he denied it all.

Kahf did provide the names of his current and former girlfriends to police, however, and the investigation continued. That's when his victim admitted to police that she had been raped at least seven times over the course of their relationship - one she maintained for religiously-motivated intentions to marry the man she lost her virginity to.

One of those rapes occurred in 2014 as the victim was studying abroad. She said she awoke to the assault but that Kahf refused to stop telling her to be quiet.

Another happened in 2016 when the victim and her friends were staying at the fraternity house on-campus after a night of clubbing and drinking. Kahf was the designated driver that night and brought the group back.

The victim said she didn't remember what happened that night but awoke the next morning feeling that she'd been raped.

In both the 2014 and 2016 cases, the victim confronted her attacker and Kahf admitted to rape. She said Kahf told her no one would ever believe her, so she never reported any of the assaults.

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