GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Written by
Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno
Pacific Daily News
A Guam priest who was stripped of his public duties last year, after a decade-old clergy sex abuse allegation surfaced, has been cleared, the Archdiocese of Agana announced yesterday.
Father John Wadeson “has been reinstated fully to public ministry,” the Archdiocese of Agana stated.
Wadeson left the Redemptoris Mater Seminary on Guam in July last year.
A decade ago, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles issued a report listing Wadeson among 113 priests who were accused of sexual abuse in a 75-year span in the archdiocese, out of more than 5,000 priests who served there. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles issued a public apology in 2004 over the allegations.
Last year, at the request of Wadeson, the archdiocese of Los Angeles conducted “a reexamination of the matter,” the Archdiocese of Agana stated, citing its Los Angeles counterpart.
“Having reviewed the documentation presented by Father Wadeson, and following the 2014 re-examination, the archdiocese has concluded that there is no reason to preclude Father Wadeson from serving in priestly ministry,” the Archdiocese of Agana stated, quoting the Los Angeles archdiocese.
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