GUAM
Pacific Daily News

Jasmine Stole, Pacific Daily News May 11, 2016

A full-page advertisement published in local newspapers, including the Pacific Daily News, over the weekend showed the back of a person dressed in Catholic clerical attire and featured the black, bolded words: “Were You Sexually Abused? Molested?”

The Concerned Catholics of Guam, a group that has protested the actions of the local archdiocese, purchased the ad, which asks for victims of sexual abuse to come forward.

The advertisement doesn’t accuse any specific person of abuse, but appears to link the abuse to the Catholic Church.

The Archdiocese of Agana didn’t provide a comment about the ad as of press time.

The ad stated: “If you or someone you know was the victim of sexual abuse during these periods and at these locations, you no longer have to suffer in silence.”

Below this statement is the following list…