Former Guam Resident Claiming Sex Abuse by Priest Is 12th Person to Come Forward

By Sabrina Salas Matanane
KUAM
December 7, 2016

http://www.kuam.com/story/33993211/2016/12/Wednesday/former-guam-resident-claiming-sex-abuse-by-priest-is-12th-person-to-come-forward

And now there are twelve. KUAM News has learned that another person has come forward, alleging he was abused by a priest when he was a altar boy serving in a local parish.

The latest person to come forward is 45-year-old Los Angeles resident Robert Aguon Perez, who grew up on Guam. He alleges that when he was 11 years old he was an altar boy at the Saint Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Sinajana where Father David Anderson would allegedly repeatedly sexually molest him while he would spend the night at the church's rectory. The alleged sexual abuse didn't stop there - he alleges it continued when he was 14 and 15 when he was a student at Father Duenas Memorial School where Father Anderson was a theology teacher.

He alleges the Agana archdiocese new about the abuse but did nothing.

It was just last week Wednesday the latest case was filed by Oregon resident 56-year-old Norman J.D. Aguon. He grew up on Guam and served as an altar boy at the San Isidro Church in Malojloj. Aguon is one of the many victims of pedophile priest Father Louis Brouillard that have come forward to allege that he would walk around naked at his home at the Carmelite monastery.

Aguon says he was repeatedly sexually molested by Father Brouillard starting when he was 13 up until he was 17. Other former altar boys that claim they were sexually molested by Father Brouillard are Leo Tudela, Bruce Diaz, Vicente Perez, Vicente San Nicolas and Anthony Vegafria. Former altar boys that have accused Archbishop Anthony Apuron of sexual molestation are Walter Denton, Roland Sondia, Roy Quintanilla, and the Estate of Joseph "Sonny" Quinata.

Meanwhile, Paul Joseph Borja alleges he was abused by now-deceased priest of the Chalan Pago church Father Antonio Cruz. Apuron denies all the allegations while court documents state Father Brouillard who now lives in Minnesota recorded a video confessing to sexually molesting boys on Guam while he served as a priest here and a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts between 1940 and the 1970's.

In an interview with KUAM in August, Father Brouillard couldn't say how many boys he molested but did say he was doing penance for his transgressions. "Hard to say," he noted. "I guess mostly it pleased the boys. I thought they were happy."

The civil suits that have been filed against the church seek a jury trial of six, damages for child sexual abuse, negligence, negligent supervision, negligent hiring and retention, and breach of fiduciary duty/confidential relationship. It does not list how much relief plaintiffs are seeking in monetary damages.