The Right Thing: Wolves in sheep's clothing

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When Kenyan-born nurse Margaret Ruto chanced upon an internet story about an American Christian missionary accused of sexually abusing children in a Kenyan orphanage, she knew she had to act. The orphanage in question was close to where Margaret had grown up. The man accused of the abuse lived ten minutes away from her current home in Pennsylvania. Mike Wooldridge talks to Margaret about her fight to help bring Gregory Dow to justice, first in Kenya and then in the USA. She describes hearing the harrowing accounts of Dow’s young victims, as well as the story of “Baby James” who died from neglect and was buried in a mass grave. Margaret lost faith both in the law enforcement authorities who failed to apprehend Dow, and in the churches which lent him the financial and moral support to set up his orphanage in the first place. She talks about how the experience has impacted her own spirituality and relationship with the church. (Photo: Margaret Ruto carrying documents. Credit: Margaret Ruto)