An American missionary has been convicted for sexually assaulting young girls at a Bomet orphanage he used to run with his wife.
The charges against Gregory Dow stated that when he began abusing the girls, two of them were 11 years of age, one was 12, and one was 13.
The US prosecutors told the court that Dow “purported to be a Christian missionary who would care for these orphans,” “They called him ‘dad’. But instead of being a father figure for them, he preyed on their youth and vulnerability.”
“He used force and coercion to perpetrate the most heinous of crimes, preying on vulnerable children for his own sexual gratification,” the prosecutors added in a court filing.
The Children’s Home in Boito, Kenya was established in 2008 and shut down in 2017 after he became a suspect.
Kenyan authorities had attempted to arrest Dow in 2017, but he fled the country and managed to return to the US.
FBI agents and local police located Dow and took him into custody in July 2019.
Gregory Dow, 61, admitted during a federal court hearing in the state of Pennsylvania to have committed the crimes between 2013 and 2017.
Dow had pleaded guilty in 1996 to sexual assault in the US state of Iowa. He was sentenced on that occasion to two years’ probation and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
Dow’s wife, Mary Hayes Rose was fined Sh50,000 in 2017 by a Sotik court after pleading guilty to charges of implanting birth control devices on the girls allegedly to prevent them from getting pregnant in the course of sexual intercourse with her husband.
Janie Jenkins, Dow’s former wife, has publicly come out to corroborate the stories with revealing evidence that her former husband abused their daughter for several years in the course of their marriage when they lived in Ohio.
Mr. Dow is sentenced to more than 15 years in prison by the American court.
