Barrigada Resident Is Latest - and 18th Overall - to Accuse Clergy of Molestation

By Krystal Paco
KUAM
February 16, 2017

http://www.kuam.com/story/34517859/barrigada-resident-is-latest-and-18th-overall-to-accuse-clergy-of-molestation

An 18th victim has filed suit against the Church. Barrigada resident Anthony Lujan alleges he was molested by Father Louis Brouillard regularly as an altar boy, a Boy Scout, and also as a student at San Vicente Catholic School. Lujan, who is now 50, states the abuse started when he was around 12.

Although he tried to avoid Father Brouillard, Lujan would be forced to be alone with the priest during monthly confessions. Similar to other complaints, Lujan would go on camping trips with Brouillard and other altar boys where sexual abuse was a regular occurrence.

During a meeting with the press earlier today, Attorney David Lujan stated the number of victims to sue the church is likely to double. His firm further disclosed that not all victims were altar boys or Boy Scouts, but students at Catholic schools around the island.

As reported, Brouillard has already confessed to touching at least 20 boys while serving on Guam. He now lives in Minnesota, where he receives a monthly stipend of $300 from the Archdiocese of Agana.