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Nun Turns Boy into Her Sex Slave in Late 1950s

By Haidee V. Eugenio
Pacific Daily News
March 28, 2019

https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/local/2019/03/28/lawsuit-nun-turns-boy-into-her-sex-slave-late-1950-s/3296561002/

A Catholic nun turned a boy into her sex slave for two years in the late 1950s, according to a $5 million lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday.

The lawsuit identifies the Sisters of Mercy nun only as "DE," who at the time was assigned to the Santa Barbara Catholic Church and Santa Barbara Catholic School in Dededo under the Archdiocese of Agana.

The plaintiff was also identified in court documents only as A.B.C. to protect his privacy.

According to the lawsuit, A.B.C. was in 5th and 6th grade at Santa Barbara Catholic School when the sexual abuses happened.

A.B.C. now lives in Washington State and is being represented by Attorney David Lujan.

The Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica in Hagatna as seen on March 27, 2019 from one of the windows of the Guam Congress Building's session hall. (Photo: Haidee Eugenio/PDN)

The nun, according to the complaint, took advantage of the boy's trust in her as a nun and school teacher, inviting and luring him to "rendezvous outside of the nuns' sleeping quarters, during the late evening hours, at least two to three nights a week, over a two-year period during 1958 to 1959."

The lawsuit says the nun "plied her sexual art and converted A.B.C. into her sex slave," when the boy was about 12 to 13 years old.

More than 200 clergy sex abuse cases

The defendants in the case include the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina, its affiliates, and Santa Barbara Catholic School. More than 200 clergy sex abuse cases have been filed since 2016 when Guam lifted the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse.

A.B.C.'s lawsuit says the archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy in federal court, so the plaintiff has not named it a defendant in the case.

Sisters of Mercy settled at least six Guam clergy abuse cases in late 2018, but the other defendants in those cases such as the archdiocese have not settled with the plaintiffs.

 

 

 

 

 




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