On Friday night, US officials revealed that an American man alleged to have sexually molested girls at a Bomet orphanage was arrested.
In 2017, the man fled Kenya after an arrest warrant was issued against him.
According to Diaspora Messenger, Gregory Dow, 60, faced charges of sexual abuse of girls at the Dow Family Children's Home in Kapsiratet village, Bomet County.
A US lawyer, William McSwain, stated that Dow faced four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign county (Kenya).
The attorney disclosed the charges during a press briefing at the Lancaster County courthouse, as reported by Nation.
“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 different minor victims in Kenya,” the lawyer stated.
Dow and his wife, Mary Rose, started the Dow Family Children’s Home, after relocating from East Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania.
On its website, the children’s home is described as a refuge for orphaned children.
By 2015, it housed more than 80 children.
According to US detectives, one girl alleged that Dow probed her to have sex with him, after accusing her of having sex with someone.
There likely are other victims, investigators stated. However, tracking the children who lived in the orphanage was difficult.
According to the Lancaster Online, before his travel to Kenya, Dow had been convicted for sex-related crimes in the US and had been imprisoned.
His wife tried to flee Kenya in September 2017, after Dow had fled, but was arrested by the police and charged with cruelty to children.
According to police records, she was released on bond in September 2017. She later fled the country.
