Category Archive for : ‘AFRICA’

June 16, 2020
BBC

Gregory Dow, 61, admitted to four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign place.

The orphanage was in operation from 2008 to 2017 when Mr Dow left Kenya.

The FBI and Kenyan authorities investigated him and he was charged in the US.

In 2008, Dow founded the orphanage in western Kenya. It was partly funded by churches in Lancaster county in the US state of Pennsylvania, reports local newspaper LNP.

He is accused of assaulting girls from 2013. Two of the girls were 11, one was

A former dorm matron at Leadership Academy for Girls, Oprah Winfrey’s $40 million school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa has been charged with abuse and sexual assault.  The 27 year old was arrested based on statements from at least seven of the school’s 152 students.  Such charges as indecent assault, criminal injury and soliciting underage girls to perform indecent acts are being investigated.

(Johannesburg, Africa)

New York Post

Sherry Hsiao Hwa Chow, a 24 year old American woman working with street children in Kenya,appeared in court yesterday on charges of having sex with underage boys during the last two years.Hwa Chow was arrested Sunday on suspicion of indecently assaulting four boys, all under 18, whowere staying at a Nairobi rehabilitation center for street children. Hwa Chow has been staying inEast Africa for the last three years working with street children.

(Nairobi, Kenya)

The Presbyterian Church (USA) will appoint a committee to investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse of missionary children in Africa between the 1950s and 1980s.  The new panel’s first task will be to look at reports of abuse at missionary boarding schools in Egypt and Cameroon.  The allegations were initially made to another committee that was formed to report on abuse of missionary children in Congo between the 1940s and 1970s.  Last year, that committee recommended a broader church probe into charges of abuse against missionary children.

(Louisville, Kentucky)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, after being horrified by findings of widespread child sex abuse by aid workers in West Africa, vowed yesterday to quickly look into the matter and crack down hard on wrongdoers.  A UN team was in the region to check the findings, made public Tuesday, of the study by the UN High Commission on Refugees and Britain’s Save the Children.  The study of refugees in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone found that almost 70 aid workers from 40 agencies had been pushing refugee children into sex for food,