Fr. Kenneth Wicks: Diocesan Clergy Accused of Sexual Misconduct With a Minor

Fr. Kenneth Wicks

Ordained: 1963
Assignments:
  • 1964-1968: St. Michael Archangel and St. Edward, Brooklyn, NY (BRK)
  • 1969-1970: Our Lady of Mercy, Brooklyn, NY (BRK)
  • 1971-1972: Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Brooklyn, NY (BRK)
  • 1973-1983: St. Gabriel’s, Brooklyn, NY (BRK)
  • 1984-1991: St. Catherine of Genoa, Brooklyn, NY (BRK)
  • 1992-1993: Transfiguration, Brooklyn, NY (BRK)
  • 1993: Died

Fr. Kenneth Wicks was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Fr. Wicks has been accused of sexually abusing minor boys in the 1980s while at St. Gabriel’s in Brooklyn, New York. Fr. Wicks was named on the Diocese of Brooklyn’s 2019 “List of Diocesan Clergy for Whom the Diocese Received Allegations of Sexual Misconduct with a Minor,” in the subsection “Clergy Members of the Diocese of Brooklyn With Credible Allegations: Credibility Deemed by Diocesan Review Board Determination and/or Admission on Behalf of the Cleric.”