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Margaret Ruto, 30, a dual U.S.-Kenyan citizen, carried out an investigation on an American pedophile that led to his arrest in the US.

The Washington Post reported that Ruto worked as a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant, Ruto collected sufficient evidence that eventually saw Gregory Dow, 61, sentenced on Thursday, 4 February 2021 in a U.S. federal court, to 188 months in prison on four counts of “engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places.”

On returning to her home in Kenya, Ruto found out that Dow, who lived just 10 minutes from her home in the US, had opened an orphanage less than 10 minutes from her village and was being accused of sexually abusing children.

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Gregory Dow (left) and wife Mary Rose (right) and six of his children on a mission in Kenya.

Ruto took it upon herself to carry out an investigation that saw her travel between the two continents in search of justice.

The Pennsylvania nurse approached the police who directed her to the US embassy in Kenya.

However the investigation hit a dead end and she decided to approach the press to get more attention on the story. The LNP, a newspaper in Lancaster, publication eventually made its way into the hands of FBI agents after which an investigation was opened.

The orphanage, which housed more than 87 children, was closed in 2017 and the children were sent to other homes or back to their respective parents.

Ruto was however not satisfied with the investigation stating that there were more victims of the crime whom the FBI were unable to verify.

“It was not just four girls,” Ruto said. “The rest of the victims and their families deserve so much better. You can’t say that justice has been fully done yet.”

A Kenyan trial in January 2018 for Mary Rose, Dow’s wife, found her guilty of four counts of child abuse, but was later released after paying a fine.

During the trial, in which she pleaded not guilty, she told a Kenyan court that she took girls to get birth-control implants because they were “promiscuous”. She soon after left the country and was not charged alongside her husband.

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During the time when Dow Family Children’s Home was opened in 2008, foreigners were not required to submit background checks therefore missing the fact that Dow had been a registered sex offender in the US till 2006.

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Gregory Dow

A former gardener at the orphanage, Davis Bett said, “If it were not for Maggie’s extreme efforts, everybody and everything would have been in darkness.”

Bett and other employees claim to have confronted Dow about his behavior and also tried alerting children protection services officials to no avail.

“At one point, I reached out to the children’s department and one of the officials told me that the home was ‘a small America in the village’ and that I should leave Gregory alone,” Bett said.

Locals were content by the fact that Dow was arrested and charged but sought compensation for the girls who had been left to bear the consequences of his actions.

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The main building of the former Dow Family Children’s Home

“Dow “deserved a life sentence. These children called him ‘Dad.’ That was a deep betrayal. What can ease the suffering of these families is compensation to make their lives better,” said Mary Rotich, a neighbor to a boy’s grandmother who died in the home under unknown circumstances.

Another case was in 2016 when, a 21-year-old, Matthew Durham from Oklahoma was sentenced in a U.S. federal court to 40 years in prison for molesting eight children at an orphanage in Nairobi.

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I always find it suspect when white people come to open orphanages here especially with their history of molestation. It never crossed africans minds that that could be on their minds.
There’s one behind a business I ran. I don’t know where dude disappeared to

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fuck this bonobo juthiefery

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Is a 188-month prison term enough for a man who sexually preyed on children in Bomet County while passing himself off as a Christian missionary?

Some of the victims of Gregory Hayes Dow’s heinous crimes say nothing will heal the lifetime scars he left on their bodies and souls.

A guardian of one of the children said it is not enough for Dow to spend 15 and a half years in prison, insisting that he should be forced to compensate the distraught victims and their families.

“The children were made to believe that what was happening to them at the orphanage was normal. They should be compensated for the trauma they are undergoing,” said the granny who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Bomet County Gender and Social Services director Rose Chepkorir welcomed the conviction and sentence.

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Gregory Hayes Dow and his wife Mary Rose with a child.

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“The second part for the victims is counseling and rehabilitation,” she said.
Ms Carolyne Cherotich, a rights activist in Bomet said the jailing of Dow should serve as a warning to sex predators.

“They can run but cannot hide as the long arm of the law will catch up with them in the end,” Ms Cherotich said.

Dow was sent to prison by District Judge Edward G. Smith in Lancaster county, Philadelphia, on Thursday for the many crimes he admitted to have committed while in Boito, Bomet county, between 2013 and 2017.

The 61-year-old sex pest will also be under a lifetime of supervised release.

He pleaded guilty to committing the offenses against girls between the ages of 11 and 13.

The disgraced missionary was ordered by the court to pay $16,000 (Sh1.7 million) in restitution, according to a dispatch from acting US Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania justice department.

Dow ran an orphanage in Kapsiratet village. It was shut in September 2017 when he was accosted by the children sexually molesting one of the girls.

The incident opened the lid on the abuse of children at the orphanage, leading to Dow fleeing Kenya to avoid arrest and prosecution.

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But the law still caught up with him in the United States. A majority of the children at the home were orphans.

Residents of the sleepy village say Dow passed himself off as a devout Christian missionary, though it later emerged that he was a sexual offender back in America.
Dow looked every inch avuncular and a respected grandfather.

Behind the facade, however, he was a confessed and convicted sex offender.

He had quietly entered Kenya and continued to perpetrate his crimes – preying on needy and vulnerable children.

By the time of the arrest, nine of the 87 girls under Dow’s care had repeatedly been defiled.

To make matters worse, contraceptive devices had been inserted in their bodies to prevent them from getting pregnant.

Dow’s wife Mary Rose was in 2017 fined Sh50,000 by a court in Sotik when she pleaded guilty to the charge of implanting birth control devices on the children.

“He kept to himself most of the times and did not let the children at the home mingle with villagers. It later emerged that it was an attempt to keep the lid shut on the crimes at the orphanage,” Boito Ward Representative Charles Langat told the Saturday Nation.

In July 2019, Dow was charged in the American court with four counts of sexually exploiting the children and pleaded guilty in June last year, with the sentence being handed on Thursday.

Ms Williams said in a statement that the sentence followed plea of guilt entered by Dow “for sexually abusing four children in an orphanage which the defendant and his wife operated in Kenya”.

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“Under the guise of faith-based charity work, benefiting orphaned children, Gregory Dow travelled half way around the world to prey on incredibly vulnerable victims,” Williams said.

“His crimes are nearly incomprehensible in their depravity. We thank the witnesses in this case for coming forward to report him, and our law enforcement partners in the United States and Kenya for working diligently to bring Dow to justice. It is no exaggeration to say that the world’s children are safer with Dow behind bars.”

Investigations into the case were conducted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kenya.

“This case serves as an example to perpetrators of crime. You can run today, but can never hide from the long arm of the law,” the DCI tweeted yesterday morning.

Mr William McSwain, a US Attorney told journalists that Dow faced four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign county.

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“From or about October 14, 2013, until on or about September 13, 2014, the defendant engaged in, and attempted to engage in, illicit sexual conduct with four victims in Kenya,” Mr McSwain said.

Mr Michael J. Driscol, Special Agent in charge of the FBI in Philadelphia, said Dow “is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing”.

“Dow presented himself as this big-hearted man when all the while, he was sexually abusing girls placed in his care,” Mr Driscol said in his statement.

“These horrific crimes were a betrayal of an entire community’s trust. If Dow thought he could get away with it because he was in a different country, if he thought no one would care because these were underprivileged Black children he victimized, this investigation and today’s sentence have most emphatically proved him wrong.”

Before traveling to Kenya from the US in 2008, Dow had been convicted of sexually abusing his daughter.

Dow’s former wife Janie Jenkins has publicly said he abused their daughter for years when the family was in Ohio state.

Dow, who was arrested and charged with the offense, also pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit sexual abuse.

He received two years’ probation and was ordered to register as a sex offender for a decade in the United States.