Gregory Hayes, a US missionary, who sexually abused 4 girls for years at his home for orphans in Kenya has been jailed for 16 years in federal prison and afterwards for the rest of his life under supervision.
The US Missionary’s crimes were “as evil, as depraved, as any case that’s come before me” said Judge Edward Smith on Thursday.
“You went to Africa as a missionary. It seems you were a missionary from hell,” Smith said before imposing the sentence. He also ordered Dow, 61, to pay $16,000 in restitution to cover the victims’ mental health treatment.
Back in June 2020, Gregory Hayes Dow pleaded guilty to four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in Kenya. He acknowledged sexually assaulting the girls multiple times between 2013 and 2017 while running Dow Family Children’s Home in Kenya.
According to prosecutors, when the abuse started, two girls were 11, one was 12 and one was 13 and Gregory Dow the US Missionary groomed the children by giving them valuables, such as cellphones.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Stengel stated that Dow established the home in 2008 with his wife, Mary Rose Dow, and together, they took girls at the orphanage to get birth control implanted without their consent. That was to ensure Dow could sexually assault them without fear of impregnating them.
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