American Man Wanted in Kenya for Sexually Assaulting Minors Speaks

An American citizen who is wanted by Kenyan authorities over accusations of sexually assaulting underage children says he did not commit the alleged crimes.

Gregory Dow from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is said to have committed the crimes in Boito, Bomet County, where he ran a home for orphaned and underprivileged children since 2008.

Dow, who has previously been convicted with sex-crime in the United States, fled Kenya in 2017 after an arrest warrant was issued against him for allegedly taking advantage of children at the sanctuary.

Two girls, who were victims of Dow, recorded reports with police claiming that he would occasionally summon them and would get upset when they refused his advances.

His wife, Mary Rose Dow, was arrested while attempting to leave Kenya and was found guilty of having girls at the home implanted with birth-control devices. She left the country after paying a court fine.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kenya says an arrest warrant for the 59-year-old is still active and Kenyan authorities are seeking to extradite him to face the charges.

"The international warrant will be sent to the U.S. via diplomatic channels,” Kenya's DCI told LNP.

However, Dow maintains he is innocent saying: “There’s not much I can do. I know the truth. They made the accusations falsely, and they got out of hand.”

Dow, who is currently living in Manheim, says the man who sold him the land where their orphanage was built fixed him in a bid to get his property back. He says the man coached some girls to lie that he sexually assaulted them.

“It’s sad to say we live in a society where people are guilty until proven innocent,” he says.

“My life was in danger, and I knew it,” Dow says on the reason why he fled Kenya.