Lawsuit: Brouillard misused church money to reward boys

By Haidee V Eugenio
Pacific Daily News
April 18, 2017

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In this Pacific Daily News file photo dated Aug. 15, 1965, Louis Brouillard is shown filming footage in an outdoor setting. In the full frame of the picture, which is cropped, boys, some in Boy Scouts uniforms, stand around Brouillard.

Former priest Louis Brouillard allegedly used church monetary offerings, or limosna, to reward boys he would later sexually abused, according to the 51st Guam clergy sex abuse lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Brouillard allegedly sexually abused a man identified in court documents as G.B., when G.B. was around 12 and an altar boy and member of the Boy Scouts of America in 1973, the complaint says. Brouillard was a scoutmaster at the time.

“During the period in which he was a Boy Scout, G.B. was sexually molested and abused by Brouillard,” the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Guam says. G.B. also served as an altar boy at the Nuestra Señora de las Aguas Catholic Church in Mongmong.

The lawsuit states G.B.’s parents attended Mass at the Mongmong parish regularly and faithfully gave limosna as a demonstration of their trust and support for the Catholic Church, unaware the church exposed their son to a priest who was molesting their son.

“Moreover, Brouillard himself would misappropriate limosna offerings as part of his evil campaign of seduction, by using the limosna to pretend to reward the altar boys, including G.B., by taking them out to McDonald’s or other restaurants, ice cream parlors, or to a movie, all as part of his ongoing grooming campaign as a sexual abuser of minors,” the lawsuit alleges.

G.B. participated in the activities of the Boy Scout Mongmong Troop of the Aloha Council — hiking, swimming, camping and the annual Jamboree. Boy Scouts also were required to study, several times a week in the Mongmong Parish, the Boy Scout oaths and rules, and practice marching drills and map reading, among other things, the lawsuit states.

G.B.’s lawsuit was filed by Marcelene C. Santos, acting as G.B.'s public guardian. G.B. now is an adult male living on Guam who, by reason of childhood onset of mental illness, remains unable, unassisted, to properly manage and take care of himself or his property. G.B. is represented by attorneys David Lujan and Gloria Lujan Rudolph.

The lawsuit demands $10 million in damages and named the Archdiocese of Agana, Brouillard, the Boy Scouts of America and its Aloha Council Chamorro District as among defendants.