A Catholic minister who had been filling in as a Boston clinic cleric was summoned Tuesday for the claimed s*xual manhandle of a young lady in 2006, experts said.
The Rev. Christian Ohazulume, an extern cleric from Nigeria, supposedly struck the young lady while he was living with a family in Randolph upon his entry in the United States, authorities said. The young lady was around 8 years of age at the time, prosecutors said.
At his arraignment in Quincy District Court, Ohazulume, 50, argued not blameworthy to three tallies of disturbed obscene threatening behavior of a youngster under 14. He purportedly contacted the young lady's v*ginal zone, caressed her bosom, and persuasively kissed her, prosecutors said.
In a meeting with police a week ago, the claimed casualty said she had originated from Nigeria to live with her dad, stepmother, and siblings in Randolph when she was around 7. Her dad presented Ohazulume as his nephew, she told police.
She told specialists that Ohazulume would drive her to and from school and help with looking after children, to court archives. Her dad worked extend periods of time as a drug specialist in Dorchester and would return home late, she said.
The claimed strike happened when she went to Ohazulume's room for help with her homework one night when no one else was home, the lady told police.
At a certain point, he went to the washroom and came back to remain over her, caressing her bosoms, she said.
When she moved toward him later that night to demonstrate to him her homework, he constrained his tongue into her mouth, the lady told police. He at that point lay over her on the overnight boardinghouse her v*ginal region over her apparel, she said. She pressured him into taking a potentially rash action away and kept running from the room, she said.
A short time later, he kept on driving her to class yet she turned out to be exceptionally furious with everybody in the house, where Ohazulume would hold private Masses for the family.
The lady said she came back to Nigeria when she was 11 or 12, at that point returned to Randolph to go to Roxbury Community College.
Ohazulume had filled in as a cleric at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center while dwelling at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Brookline since 2010, as indicated by The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
Subsequent to getting the manhandle charge on Aug. 31, church authorities expelled Ohazulume from service and banned him from ward property. Ohazulume had "helped with observing Mass and hearing admissions" at the Brookline ward, church authorities said.
Authorities at St. Mary of the Assumption declined to remark.
Jennifer Kritz, a representative for Beth Israel, said Ohazulume had been terminated from his activity at the doctor's facility.
"At the point when the Archdiocese educated us about the charge and its choice to repudiate Rev. Ohazulume's service resources, we quickly set him on unpaid leave and ended him presently," Kritz said in an announcement. "He is never again utilized by BIDMC."
The healing facility noticed that it doesn't have a pediatrics unit and does not treat youngsters, aside from infants conveyed at the clinic or its neonatal emergency unit.
In an announcement, church authorities said they promptly informed law authorization in the wake of accepting the affirmation.
"The Archdiocese has been in contact with his home Diocese of Nnewi, Nigeria and educated them of the claim and that his resources to serve have been pulled back in the Archdiocese of Boston," the announcement read. "The Archdiocese was exhorted by law authorization to defer until the point that today arrival of this data while they started their examination."
The charges come as the Catholic Church faces restored examination for its treatment of sexual mishandle grievances.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley said throughout the end of the week in Rome that tending to the sexual manhandle emergency in the Catholic Church "must be the need that we focus on the present moment," with survivors giving knowledge to Vatican authorities.
His comments came at the finish of the three-day Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, a gathering the Boston cardinal heads.
The gathering took after the July acquiescence of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, previous ecclesiastical overseer of Washington who ventured down from the College of Cardinals in the midst of assertions that he s*xually manhandled minors and grown-up seminarians.
In August, O'Malley freely apologized for the manner in which his office took care of a 2015 letter from a New York cleric charging sexual manhandle by McCarrick.
O'Malley's secretary did not convey the letter to the cardinal at the time, in light of the fact that the commission isn't engaged to manage singular protests.
Source: Boston Globe
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