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Brouillard Abused Boy While Others Looked at Nude Photos

By Haidee V Eugenio
Pacific Daily News
April 19, 2017

http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2017/04/19/lawsuit-brouillard-abused-boy-while-others-looked-nude-photos/100635816/

Father Louis Brouillard is shown in an undated photo from the Pacific Daily News archives.

Three new lawsuits filed Wednesday detailed former priest Louis Brouillard's alleged sex abuse of children in the 1950s and 1970s on church premises and during Boy Scouts of America activities.

A man identified in court document as M.S. filed his suit in the Superior Court of Guam, while Thomas A. Cepeda Sr. and a man identified as M.W. filed theirs in the U.S. District Court of Guam. The federal cases each ask for $10 million in damages. Their lawsuits bring to 54 the total number of Guam clergy sex abuse lawsuits filed so far in local and federal courts.

Brouillard is being sued in 31 of the cases, and is accused, but isn't being sued, in three others. The latest lawsuits named the Archdiocese of Agana, Brouillard and the Boy Scouts of America and its Aloha Council Chamorro District as defendants.

M.S. accused Brouillard of sexually abusing him many times when he was about 14 around 1972, in a church rectory, in a tent during Boy Scouts camping trips and during rides in Brouillard's vehicle. M.S. is now 59 and lives on Guam.

The lawsuit states one incident took place at a Boy Scouts of America meeting, during which Brouillard got naked and fondled M.S. as other Boy Scouts were looking at a book with photographs of naked boys. The complaint states Brouillard also abused M.S. in the rectory of San Isidro Parish in Malojloj.

"Complaints about Brouillard were similarly cast aside and ignored by local church leaders," the complaint states, adding that the man's initials are being used in order to protect his privacy.

“Based on the allegations of M.S. and R.B., it looks like Father Brouillard was using his position as the Boy Scout leader of Troop 24 to draw in kids from neighboring parishes. I think we will likely see more people come forward from St. Joseph, and possibly other parishes," attorney Kevin Fowler, who represents M.S., said in a statement.

Cepeda now is 71 and lives in Washington State. His complaint says from about 1959 through 1962 when he was about 13 to 16, Brouillard sexually abused him multiples times during church and boy scouting events as a former altar boy and Boy Scout.

M.W., now 54 and living on Guam, was about 10 or 11 when Brouillard allegedly sexually abused him during church and Boy Scout activities.

Contact: heugenio@guampdn.com

 

 

 

 

 




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