GUAM
Pacific News Center
Written by Janela Buhain Carrera
Friday, 08 August 2014
Guam – The local community and victims advocate organizations are calling on Archbishop Anthony Apuron to answer to questions regarding sexual abuse allegations and the removal of Monsignor James Benavente from the Agana Cathedral rectory.
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests or SNAP issued a statement this morning blasting Apuron for allowing an accused child molester, Father John Howard Wadeson, to work for the Archdiocese of Agana and then recommending him to the San Francisco Archdiocese.
They called his behavior “reckless” and demanded “concrete action.”
Joelle Casteix of SNAP said in a statement, “How can Apuron claim to be a good and pastoral shepherd to his flock when he knowingly allowed a known predator to have a position of great power?”
SNAP also noted in their statement that Father Wadeson isn’t the only scandal affecting the Church, but the public outcry against the Archbishop for making allegations of financial mismanagement.
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