GUAM
KUAM
Updated: Nov 10, 2016
By Sabrina Salas Matanane
Documents filed in the church sex abuse scandal on Guam reveal explosive details – and information about a video that Father Louis Brouillard recorded on October 3 at his home in Minnesota.
Brouillard is one of the defendants accused of sexual molestation when he was a priest in Guam several years ago. The victim is Leo Tudela. According to court documents Fr. Broullard he said that he made the video to reach out to the parishioners of the Archdiocese of Guam and anyone he may have harmed to ask forgiveness for his actions many years ago.
He confessed that sex education talks while at Santa Teresita he touched the penises of some of the boys and some of the boys did perform oral sex on him. Fr. Brouillard added that some of the incidents took place in Mangilao at the church’s rectory. He said that he didn’t’ remember the dates or name of the boys involved, but did say that there may have been 20 or more boys may have been involved. He also confessed that there were other locations where the sexual contact may have happened at the San Vicente and Father Duenas Memorial Schools.
“I did believe that the boys enjoyed the sexual contact and I also had self-gratification as well,” he said. He also acknowledged his abuse of Tudela and apologized on the video.
Additionally Fr. Brouillard said that his actions while on Guam were discussed and confessed to area priests as well as the Bishop Apolinaris Baumgartner at the time. He said the bishop talked to him and told him to try to do better and say prayers as penance. “I believe the Catholic Church should be honest and truthful regarding what happened on Guam during my time there,” he said.
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