Investigators from US-based Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and homicide officers have exhumed the body of a nine-month-old boy secretly buried at Dow Family Children's Home in Konoin Constituency, Bomet County.
The government closed down the facility back in 2017 following allegations of children defilement by the owner Gregory Dow.
The American fled the country to avert any prosecution.
There have been concerted efforts between the Kenyan government and its American counterpart to trace the suspect.
Konoin OCPD, Alex Shikondi said the exhumation will help to initiate charges against the homeowner.
"We can now charge the offender because we have tangible evidence that can hold water in a court of law," Shikondi stated.
Government pathologist Johansen Odour was among state officials involved in the exhumation exercise.
The Dow Children's Home was run by Gregory and his Wife Mary after they came to Kenya as missionaries 2008 to establish a children’s home.
More than, 79 children were housed in the facility by the year 2015.
Kenyan activists have asked the US government to extradite him (Gregory Dow) to face justice.
Dow had already served time for sex-related crimes in the US before travelling to Kenya.
