This archive report was first published on 17 June 2020.
Published on June 17, 2020, a US man is facing a 16-year prison term after pleading guilty to charges of sexually abusing four girls at an orphanage he and his wife ran in Boito, Bomet County, in Kenya's Rift Valley.
Gregory Dow, 61, admitted during a federal court hearing in Pennsylvania to having committed the crimes between 2013 and 2017.
Under the terms of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Dow would receive a prison sentence of 15 years and eight months.
He is scheduled to be formally sentenced on September 29.
The orphanage, The Dow Family's Children's Home, was established in 2008 and shut down in 2017 after Kenyan authorities attempted to arrest Dow, but he fled the country and managed to return to the US.
He was eventually located by FBI agents and local police in July 2019 and taken into custody.
Gregory Dow had previously pleaded guilty in 1996 to sexual assault in the US state of Iowa, receiving two years' probation and being ordered to register as a sex offender.
