Checkbox text is not vertically aligned to the centre of the checkbox - android-studio

Question

I have 5 checkboxes and each checkbox's' text is misaligned vertically from the center of the checkbox. I have tried adding a padding or a marging to the chckbox which has not helped, cause to my knowledge you can't add a padding specifically to the text. Heres an image that might explain my problem a little better!
Checkbox text is misaligned on the first checkbox. The result I want is the 4th checkbox.
EDIT
I create the checkboxes programmatically from an array:
LinearLayout typeLinLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.typeLinLay);
TableRow.LayoutParams checkParams = new TableRow.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
checkParams.setMargins(0, 15, 0, 0);
for (int k = 0; k < config.checkBoxTypeFindViewById.length; k++)
{
CheckBox checkBox = new CheckBox(this);
checkBox.setLayoutParams(checkParams);
typeLinLayout.addView(checkBox, checkParams);
checkBox.setId(config.checkBoxTypeFindViewById[k]);
checkBox.setText(config.checkBoxTextType[k]);
checkBox.setOnClickListener(onCheckboxClickedType);
checkBox.setLayoutDirection(View.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);
checkBox.setGravity(Gravity.LEFT);
checkBox.setTextDirection(View.TEXT_DIRECTION_ANY_RTL);
checkBox.setTextSize(16);
checkBox.setAllCaps(true);
}
Heres the xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#color/mainTextBGColor">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="15dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/typesText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:textSize="#dimen/optionsHeaders"
android:fontFamily="#font/lato"
android:textColor="#color/mainBGColor"
android:text="#string/optionsType"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/typeLinLay"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:backgroundTint="#color/mainBGColor">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
Any help is much appreciated!