Fr. Uriroghene Okrokoto
Prohibited from contact with minors in 8/19 due to allegations of “boundary violations and grooming” involving teenage girls. Sent to St. Luke’s Institute for treatment, then reassigned to a Brooklyn parish in 6/21. Again suspended in 10/21 after he was seen with a teenage girl at the parish. Brooklyn auxiliary bishop Raymond Chappetto allegedly had not informed Okrokoto’s new pastor of the prohibitions against him. Also, the pastor of Okrokoto’s previous parish complained in a memo to Chappetto in 9/20 that the priest continued to spend time with teenage girls, despite his treatment at St. Luke’s. Chapetto retired in 2/22 and is the subject of a Vos estis investigation, initiated in 12/21, due to his alleged mishandling of the Okrokoto case, including failing to inform diocesan officials of the 9/20 memo.
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