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The Documentary Podcast

Heart and Soul: Wolves in sheep's clothing

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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 10 minutes away from her current home in Pennsylvania. Mike Wooldridge talks Margaret about her fight to bring Gregory Dow to justice.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Life Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service bringing you extraordinary personal stories from around the globe.

0:08.0

Search for Lives Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC Podcasts.

0:16.0

How was your trip to L'A Pradesh?

0:20.0

It was good.

0:22.0

There was a shower in the tent. Oh. Did you see any animals? Yes, we saw elephants and I think lions.

0:31.0

Margaret Ruto is a woman who has... I think Lyons.

0:33.0

Margaret Ruto is a woman who has one foot in Kenya where she was born and one in the

0:38.3

United States where she now lives with her young daughter.

0:42.2

But disturbing events near her Kenyan home led her

0:45.7

two worlds to collide. Abuse of girls by an American Christian missionary made

0:50.7

Margaret determine that justice be done.

0:54.0

I am very tenacious in nature and I'm a fighter and I also believe that God will not give an assignment to somebody that's not going to complete it.

1:04.0

I'm Mike Woolridge.

1:05.0

In this edition of Heart and Souls The Right Thing

1:08.0

from the BBC World Service,

1:10.0

programs that explore people's life-changing decisions,

1:13.6

we start in the green tea-growing Western Kenya region of Margaret's early upbringing.

1:19.6

I grew up in a small town called Capcatet, but particularly I grew up in my village

1:31.1

it's called Kamachumu. I had a great childhood. On a day-to-day basis,

1:37.2

you would not find me at home. They call me by my middle name Chabed.

1:42.1

So my mom would be going around the village

1:44.4

and asking, have you seen Chabed?

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