GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com November 1, 2016
Four former altar boys who publicly accused Catholic priests on Guam of sexually abusing them in the 1950s and 1970s filed separate lawsuits Tuesday against the Archdiocese of Agana, Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron and former island priest Louis Brouillard.
The plaintiffs are Leo Tudela, 73; Roland Sondia, 54; Walter Denton, 52; and Roy Quintanilla, 52.
Attorney David Lujan filed the lawsuits on behalf of the four victims of alleged sex abuse.
The filing of the lawsuits comes over a month after Gov. Eddie B. Calvo signed into law on Sept. 23 a controversial bill that allows victims of child sex abuse to sue their abusers and the institutions with which they are associated, at any time.
“It is each victim’s hope that the filings of the lawsuits will bring positive changes in the lives of all victims of abuse resulting in a cleansing and healing of decades-old feelings of fear, embarrassment, shame, hatred, bitterness, blaming of oneself and restore each victim’s dignity and respect,” Lujan said at a press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Two of the plaintiffs were at the press conference — Tudela, now a resident of Hawaii, and Sondia, who lives on Guam.
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