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By Jim Mendoza
KALIHI (HawaiiNewsNow) – In the 1950s, Brother Thomas Cuthbert Ford pleaded guilty to beating a boy in a New Jersey orphanage. He was Damien Memorial School’s dean from 1972 to 1975.
Brother Robert Brouilette was convicted of child porn after he taught religion and history at Damien in the seventies and eighties.
Father Gerald Funcheon was Damien’s chaplain and counselor from 1982 to 1984, and the subject of three child sex assault lawsuits on the mainland.
“These men were predators. They’re superiors knew that they were predators,” said Joelle Casteix, western regional director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).
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