Pennsylvania missionary arrested for allegedly abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing children at an orphanage he founded in Kenya, federal officials said.

Gregory Dow, 60, was taken into custody Friday at his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He started a home for orphaned children in the east African nation in 2008, and allegedly abused the minors under his care for years, according to the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Hundreds of orphans buried by Scots charity

SHOCKING details of unmarked common graves at a Scottish orphanage can be revealed today, raising questions for the country's largest children's charity. More than 230 children are buried without headstones in the cemetery at St Margaret's Episcopal Church in Aberlour, Morayshire.

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Child Abuse In Shelter Homes: Central Team Continues Inspection

A day after the Central team accused the Odisha Government of not following the guidelines on protection of children at shelter homes, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) continued its inspection in various Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across the State on Friday.

The NCPCR team along with officials of Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR), Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and Angul District Child Protection Officer (DCPO) carried out inspection at Adrut Children Home and Bajirout Chhatrabas in the district.

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In Kashmir, child abuse in orphanages is rampant

Six children’s schools-cum-orphanages have been closed in the Kashmir valley in the last few months owing to a lack of proper facilities. In Kashmir, these orphanages and seminaries are mostly run by religious people. The Juvenile Justice Act lays down some of the rules for the functioning of these orphanages and their inmates include juvenile delinquents, while some children come from single-parent families who send them to these homes for the free meals and education.

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Scottish inquiry: Children endured abuse at sister-run orphanages

As scandals over sexual abuse and bullying in the Catholic Church spread globally in recent years, women religious orders seemed to have been spared the worst accusations.

Yet the tidy image was jolted this October, when a congregation of nuns in Scotland faced charges in an official report of showing "no love, no compassion, no dignity and no comfort" to children in its care.

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Former orphanage residents to sue religious order over child abuse

Former residents who claim they were physically and sexually abused at two orphanages in Scotland are suing the religious order that ran them.

Ten people are taking legal action against the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul.

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Government inquiry documents abuse at Catholic orphanages in Scotland

A new report published Thursday in Scotland shows that children suffered abuse at two children’s care homes run by a Catholic religious order, both of which have been closed for decades.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) said that the two children’s facilities run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul - Smyllum Park in Lanark and Bellevue House in Rutherglen - were “places of fear, coercive control, threat, excessive discipline and emotional, physical and sexual abuse, where they found no love, no compassion, no dignity and no comfort.”

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• Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry – Kids sexually abused, assaulted and beaten with crucifixes in Catholic orphanage and care home
• 'No Love, No Compassion': Two Scottish Orphanages Were Rife With Abuse - Report

Child abuse inquiry says orphanages were places of 'threat and abuse'

Children at Smyllum Park orphanage were sexually abused and beaten with leather straps, hairbrushes and crucifixes, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has found.

Nuns belonging to the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul ran the Catholic Children's home near Lanark, as well as Bellevue House, Rutherglen.

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Child abuse inquiry set to publish orphanage findings

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will publish its findings from the case study examining residential institutions run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul (DoC) on Thursday.

Evidence was heard over 20 days from 54 witnesses about their experiences of Smyllum Park in Lanark and Bellevue House in Rutherglen.

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Vermont authorities investigating orphanage abuse, bishop pledges full cooperation

The Diocese of Burlington will cooperate fully with a joint state-local investigation into possible criminality stemming from the stories of abuse told by former residents of St. Joseph's Orphanage, Bishop Christopher Coyne said Sunday morning.

Coyne told parishioners during mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral and then reporters at a rare press conference, that the church erred in the past with its legalistic approach to allegations of abuse by clergy, and that both survivors and the faithful deserve a more compassionate response.

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Orphanage abuse: Vermont authorities to investigate survivors' stories

Local and state authorities plan to investigate the criminality of abuse against children at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington that occurred decades ago.


A joint state-local task force is to be announced 10 a.m. Monday at the Burlington Police Department, Vermont State Attorney General T.J. Donovan said Friday.

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Another woman arrested over historical child abuse claims at orphanage

A twelfth woman has been arrested in connection with alleged historical abuse of children at Smyllum Park orphanage. Police Scotland said on Friday, a 76-year-old woman has now been charged in connection ‘with the non-recent abuse of children’

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44 children rescued from Chennai orphanage after child abuse allegations

The matter came to light when a few children complained to two city magistrates when they visited the orphanage for a legal awareness programme.

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The horror story inside an Indian children's home

"The sun rose very slowly for us every morning," a girl rescued from a shelter home in India's Bihar state told an investigator recently. She had cupped her hands together forming a small bowl shape and smiled wanly.

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Police investigate child abuse in orphanages in Odesa, Volyn oblasts

Odesa Oblast police say they have launched an investigation into alleged cases of child abuse in a local orphanage, Svitanok (Sunrise).

According to the message published on Odesa Oblast National Police website on Aug. 6, the investigation started after a five-year-old girl, an orphan living at Svitanok, was filmed on Aug. 5 complaining about numerous cases of humiliation and violence children there suffer at the hands of orphanage staff.

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‘Children home girls drugged before rape’

The minor girls living at the government-run ‘children home’ on Sahu Road in Muzaffarpur were being allegedly drugged regularly before being raped.

Quoting the rape survivors, a police officer said on Wednesday they were given two tablets after their dinner. “They told police one tablet was white and the other was pink,” the officer said, adding the victims would fall asleep after taking the medicines.

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Study of child abuse in welfare facilities

A survey by Japan's welfare ministry shows that children living apart from their guardians at welfare facilities have experienced sexual and physical abuse from other children.

As of March last year, more than 26,000 children nationwide were living in care facilities. They were unable to live with their parents due to abuse and other factors.

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Child Abuse Inquiry: Orphanage staff ‘tried to protect boy from nun’

A former volunteer at an orphanage has told how she tried to cover up a child’s bed wetting to save him from being “ridiculed” by a nun. Margaret White was studying at the University of Aberdeen between 1974 and 1977 when she helped out at Nazareth House in the city.

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Desperate Venezuelans leave children at orphanages

“Would you like to see the little ones?” asked Magdelis Salazar, a social worker, beckoning me toward a crowded playground.

We were at Venezuela’s largest orphanage, just after lunch. The yard was an obstacle course of abandoned children. A little chunk of a boy, on the cusp of 3, sat on a play scooter. He was called El Gordo – the fat one. But when he was left here a few months ago, he was skin and bones.

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US senators seek to close Haiti orphanage amid abuse claims

MIAMI (AP) — Ten members of the U.S. Senate have asked the State Department to pressure the Haitian government into closing an orphanage where several children being adopted by American families have been victims of alleged sexual abuse.

The letter said “multiple” children at the Foyer Notre Dame de la Nativite orphanage on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince tested positive for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia and reported that they had been victims of abuse.

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• Haitian orphanage should be shuttered after sex abuse allegations, US senators say