Lawsuit: Priest Tells Boy He's "One to One with God" When Sexually Abusing Him

By Haidee V. Eugenio
Pacific Daily News
March 15, 2018

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Father Louis Brouillard is shown in this undated Pacific Daily News file photo receiving a Silver Beaver award for his scouting hierarchy from a Navy captain.

A priest would often tell an altar boy he was "one to one with God" when the priest was sexually abusing him around 1979 or 1980, according to a $10 million lawsuit filed Thursday in local court.

The lawsuit says Father Louis Brouillard, now a retired priest and former scoutmaster living in Minnesota, sexually abused a Barrigada parish altar boy, who also was a Boy Scout and around 9 or 10 years old at the time.

The plaintiff, identified in court documents only as J.G. to protect his privacy, said in his lawsuit that Brouillard would sexually abuse the boy in the priest's room by rubbing his private parts over his clothing and would place the boy's hands on the priest's private parts.

That's in addition to subjecting J.G. and other altar boys to seeing Brouillard walking around naked and groping them or touching the boys' private parts during Boy Scout swimming at the Lonfit River, the lawsuit says.

J.G.'s lawsuit says the abuses, which include oral sex, happened on church grounds and during Boy Scouts outings.

"During many of these oral sex encounters, Brouillard would frequently quote the Bible and would say to J.G. that he was now 'one to one with God,'" the lawsuit states. "Brouillard stated to J.G. that this was normal behavior and that he now enjoyed a higher status in the church."

J.G., now 49, is represented by attorney Michael Berman.

The lawsuit states Brouillard would often reward J.G. and the other boys by taking them to McDonald's or other restaurants. Brouillard, in 2016, admitted publicly to abusing boys while he was on Guam from 1948 to 1981.

J.G. is the 159th person to file a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Agana for alleged sexual abuses by priests, clergy and others associated with the Catholic Church. The Boy Scouts of America also is named as a defendant every time Brouillard is the accused priest.

Reporter Haidee Eugenio covers Guam's Catholic church issues, education, government, business and more. Follow her on Twitter @haidee_eugenio. Follow Pacific Daily News on Facebook/GuamPDN and Instagram @guampdn.