NEWTON (MA)
NECN
September 11, 2018
By Michael Rosenfield, Marc Fortier and Melissa Buja
Rev. Christian Ohazulume, an extern priest from Nigeria, has resided at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Brookline and has worked as a chaplain at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since 2010
The Archdiocese of Boston has removed a Nigerian priest residing at a Massachusetts church from ministry after an allegation that he sexually abused a child in a Randolph home 11 years ago.
Rev. Christian Ohazulume, an extern priest from Nigeria who has resided at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Brookline, pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault and battery on a child under 14 in Quincy District Court on Tuesday, according to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey.
The 8-year-old victim’s father says that Ohazulume is his own nephew, and that he helped bring him to the U.S. from Nigeria to study at Boston College.
“I’m sad,” the man said in an exclusive interview with NBC10 Boston. “I’m devastated.”
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