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Priest Lured Boys into Homosexual Lifestyle, Smoking

By Haidee V Eugenio
Pacific Daily News
October 18, 2017

http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2017/10/18/lawsuit-priest-lured-boys-into-homosexual-lifestyle-smoking/774901001/

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

Father Louis Brouillard allegedly gave altar boys access to pornographic homosexual literature, allowed them to smoke, and treated them to restaurants while also sexually abusing them during Boy Scouts swimming trips, a lawsuit filed in local court on Tuesday states.

S.S., a plaintiff in the latest clergy sex abuse lawsuit, alleged that Brouillard sexually abused him on the grounds of the Barrigada parish and at Boy Scouts outings in or around 1978 to 1979, when he was about 12 to 13.

He was an altar boy and a Boy Scout at the time.

S.S., represented by attorney Michael Berman, demands a jury trial and at least $10 million in damages.

The lawsuit states Brouillard walked around naked in front of S.S. and other altar boys.

"While in his room, Brouillard had on display pornographic homosexual literature, showing adult males with underage boys, thereby hoping to entice S.S. into a homosexuality lifestyle with him," states the lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of Guam late Tuesday afternoon.

The complaint states Brouillard's strategies to gain access to S.S. and other boys included allowing the boys to smoke tobacco, and rewarding them by often taking them out to McDonald's or other restaurants.

Brouillard would routinely ask S.S. and the boys to swim naked, and then the priest would grope and touch their private parts, the lawsuit says. The priest tried to grope S.S., but the boy pulled away, the complaint states.

"He stated that they needed to do these things to obtain their merit badges, including a swimming badge. All of these actions made S.S. feel uncomfortable, and he decided to quit the Boy Scouts because of this," the lawsuit states.

S.S. is the 135th person to file a clergy sex abuse lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Agana, priests, other clergy and others associated with the Catholic Church. Brouillard is accused in more than half of the lawsuits, along with the Boy Scouts of America, because Brouillard was also a scoutmaster.

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