Lawsuits allege priest used ‘evil campaign’ to abuse victims

By Mindy Aguon
Guam Daily Post
March 29, 2017

https://www.postguam.com/news/local/lawsuits-allege-priest-used-evil-campaign-to-abuse-victims/article_fc9da5ec-145d-11e7-bff7-9b854ade30b0.html

ABUSED: San Isidro Church in Malojloj, Tuesday, March 28. A 53-year-old individual who wishes to protect his privacy alleges he was sexually abused for three years by former priest and Boy Scout Master Louis Brouillard at the Malojloj church in 1972, beginning when he was 10 years old. Photo by David Castro

A sex abuse victim alleges former priest and Boy Scout Master Louis Brouillard took altar boys and Boy Scouts to watch pornographic films and misappropriated church offerings to pay for outings with minor boys.

Two new lawsuits were filed in the District Court of Guam yesterday against the Archdiocese of Agana, the Boy Scouts of America and Brouillard seeking $10 million each. The cases were filed by two individuals who wanted to protect their privacy.

A 53-year-old individual with the initials “M.A.” alleges he was sexually abused for three years by Brouillard at the San Isidro Catholic Church of Malojloj in 1972, beginning when he was 10.

The lawsuit states that Brouillard used various strategies to gain access to M.A. and other young boys and to induce their compliance as part of his “evil campaign to sexually abuse them” and achieve his “sexually predatory objectives.”

Brouillard is accused of deceiving parents of altar boys, asking that they be allowed to spend the night at the convent to ensure they would not be late to serve for early morning Masses, and instead molesting and abusing the boys. The lawsuit states, “Brouillard seized upon every opportunity to molest young boys.”

Court documents state the priest would misappropriate limosna, or money offerings, as a way to seduce the boys, offering rewards by taking them out to eat, or to the movies.

M.A. also alleges he was sexually abused again in 1975 by Brouillard while he was a Boy Scout. He said Brouillard would routinely walk around naked and smoke his pipe at the convent, talk about and watch pornographic material and swim with the Boy Scouts and grope them.

Brouillard also allegedly took some of the Boy Scouts to Johnson Theater in Tamuning to watch pornographic films “with the specific purpose of grooming the minor boys to be comfortable with sexuality and make them amenable to Brouillard’s acts of molestation,” court documents state.

Another lawsuit was filed by a 59-year-old victim, with the initials “R.M.C.,”’ who was not an altar boy or a Boy Scout because his family could not afford the uniform and the club fee.

Despite not serving at the church or being a member of the Boy Scouts, Brouillard allowed R.M.C. to participate in outings when he was 14 or 15. The complaint alleges that the priest would share his food with the victim and other boys and then encourage them to get naked and lay in his bed.

R.M.C. alleges there were usually several boys in the bed and Brouillard would sexually molest and abuse them one-by-one. The priest allegedly told the boys not to worry, that what he was doing was not a sin because “if this were a sin, then we would not be enjoying this.”

Brouillard resides in Minnesota and is still receiving a monthly stipend from the Archdiocese of Agana even though he was removed from his position in 1985.

He is expected to answer questions at a deposition on April 17, in relation to more than two dozen civil complaints alleging sexual abuse while he was a priest on Guam.