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Documents Detail Sexual Molestation by Priest

By Sabrina Salas Matanane
KUAM
November 10, 2016

http://www.kuam.com/story/33674994/2016/11/Thursday/documents-detail-sexual-molestation-by-priest

Documents filed in the church sex abuse scandal on Guam reveal explosive details - and information about a video that Father Louis Brouillard recorded on October 3 at his home in Minnesota.

Brouillard is one of the defendants accused of sexual molestation when he was a priest in Guam several years ago. The victim is Leo Tudela. According to court documents Fr. Brouillard said that he made the video to reach out to the parishioners of the Archdiocese of Guam and anyone he may have harmed, to ask forgiveness for his actions many years ago.

He confessed that during sex education talks he conducted while at Santa Teresita Church he touched the penises of some of the boys and that some of the boys did perform oral sex on him. Fr. Brouillard added that some of the incidents took place in Mangilao at the church's rectory. He said that he didn't' remember the dates or names of the boys involved, but did say that there may have been 20 or more boys involved. He also confessed that there were other locations where the sexual contact may have happened at the San Vicente and Father Duenas Memorial Schools.

"I did believe that the boys enjoyed the sexual contact and I also had self-gratification as well," he said. He also acknowledged his abuse of Tudela and apologized on the video, court documents stated.

Additionally Fr. Brouillard said that his actions while on Guam were discussed and confessed to area priests as well as Bishop Apolinaris Baumgartner at the time. He said the Bishop talked to him and told him to try to do better and say prayers as penance. "I believe the Catholic Church should be honest and truthful regarding what happened on Guam during my time there," he said.

Tudela is not the only person suing the church, other alleged victims that are suing the Archdiocese of Agana and Archbishop Anthony Apuron are Walter Denton, Roland Sondia and Roy Quintanilla - the three men who alleged Apuron abused them when they were altar boys at Mount Carmel Church in Agat where he served as a priest decades ago.

Their attorney, David Lujan, has said there could be up to one dozen lawsuits that will be filed.

 

 

 

 

 




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