US Missionary Bags 15-Year Jail Term For Sexually Abusing Minors In Orphanage
The United States District Judge, Edward Smith, described Dow s crimes as evil, as depraved, as any case that s come before me at the sentencing on Thursday.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 06, 2021
An American missionary, Gregory Hayes Dows, who sexually abused four girls for years at his orphanage in Kenya, has been sentenced to jail for 15 years in federal prison.
The United States District Judge, Edward Smith, described Dow s crimes as evil, as depraved, as any case that s come before me at the sentencing on Thursday.
He further said, You went to Africa as a missionary. It seems you were a missionary from hell.
15-Year Sentence for Pennsylvania Man Who Abused Girls at Orphanage in Kenya
Two of the victims were 11 years old when the abuse began, Gregory Dow admitted to the authorities.
The Dow Family Children s Home in Boito, Kenya, which was operated by Gregory Dow, who sexually abused four underage girls who stayed there.Credit.NTV
Feb. 4, 2021
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced on Thursday to more than 15 years in prison for abusing four underage girls in Kenya, where he had operated an orphanage for about a decade before returning home, the authorities said.
The man, Gregory Dow, of Lancaster County, had “traveled halfway around the world to prey on incredibly vulnerable victims,” Jennifer Arbittier Williams, the acting United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said in a statement. “His crimes are nearly incomprehensible in their depravity.”
Ruto was led to a rumpled patch of earth behind the orphanage. Former employees said a 9-month-old boy buried there had died a few years earlier after choking on something while he d been left unsupervised. Standing over the grave, she felt dizzy. It was a moment that would divide her life into a before and an after: a transformation from an ordinary woman into a detective. Dow, whom she would spend the next year chasing, had already fled back to Pennsylvania after members of the community confronted him and alerted authorities. Kenyan police say they missed catching him at the airport by just a few hours.