GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Louella Losinio | Post News Staff
Walter Denton, who has accused Archbishop Anthony Apuron of sexual molestation, yesterday attended a prayer vigil in Agat, the site of his alleged rape, and disclosed that he has spoken to other victims of sex abuse by the archbishop.
“I’ve spoken with other victims but it is up to those victims to come out,” Denton said. “I am encouraging them to please come out.”
Denton and Doris Concepcion, accompanied by family and supporters, walked the path toward the building which used to be the rectory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Agat – the same building where Denton said then-parish priest, now Archbishop Anthony Apuron raped him nearly four decades ago.
Denton and Concepcion, the mother of Joseph Quinata, comforted each other at the steps of the building, which is now an administration office of Mount Carmel School.
Conception has said that Quinata told her he was sexually abused by Apuron in the late 1970s shortly before his death in 2005.
“That is the door that I opened but couldn’t go anywhere. That is the door that I opened up. It was so dark outside. I couldn’t leave. I was so afraid. I closed that door and I just stayed in that living room,” Denton said.
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