GUAN
Clay Center Dispatch
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Another former altar boy has come forward to publicly accuse Guam’s archbishop of sexual abuse.
The Pacific Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/21mlTr9) that 54-year-old Roland Paul L. Sondia said Wednesday that he was a 15-year-old altar boy when Archbishop Anthony Apuron sexually abused him during a sleepover in a church rectory. That was in summer 1977, when Apuron was a parish priest.
Sondia says he has tried to put the abuse behind him but felt that he should come forward when childhood friends began sharing similar stories in May.
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, a temporary administrator appointed by the Vatican, said in a statement that the Guam archdiocese will take the allegations into “serious consideration.”
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