GUAM
Pacific News Center
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Written by Janela Carrera
Ramon De Plata says the victim passed away before he could share his own story of sexual abuse.
Guam – The sex abuse scandal continues in the catholic church, this time a former altar server has come forward with explosive details involving Archbishop Anthony Apuron, another priest and a young altar boy allegedly engaged in a threesome.
Ramon De Plata is the latest to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of Church members. Although De Plata says he was never physically abused, he did witness something that he wishes he had never seen. De Plata says he was 10 years old and an altar server at the Our Lady of Peace church in Chalan Pago back in March 1964.
He and a number of other altar boys were invited to sleep over at the rectory by Pale Antonio Cruz and by Archbishop Anthony Apuron who was at the time just a seminarian. While getting ready for bed, De Plata says Pale Cruz told the boys that he would leave his bedroom door open in case any of the boys needed to use the restroom in the middle of the night.
“So later in the evening I needed the restroom. So I got up and went there and when I walked in the door and everything, I noticed to my right that the priest was naked, the altar boy was naked and the altar boy was [expletive] the priest’s penis and he was turned halfway where Apuron was kneeling on the floor and he was [expletive] the altar boy,” explained De Plata.
De Plata says he headed straight for the restroom when Apuron followed him. Behind Apuron was De Plata’s brother who asked De Plata if everything was alright. De Plata says he left the rectory and went straight home as his brother followed him.
His brother confirmed that he had also witnessed the same thing but both agreed to get some rest and talk about the shocking experience the next morning.
But De Plata says he and his brother never spoke about what they witnessed the next day.
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