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Mindy Aguon |For The Guam Daily Post Mar 7, 2017

A lawsuit naming the Boy Scouts of America as a defendant in a child sex abuse case that allegedly occurred in Guam decades ago, and involving a former scout and altar boy, was filed in the Superior Court of Guam today.

While previously filed lawsuits named the Archdiocese of Agana as a defendant in similar lawsuits alleging abuse of former altar boys, today’s filing was the first recent child sex abuse case in Guam to directly name the Boy Scouts of America and its Aloha Council as defendants.

Anthony “Tony” Flores, 55, a former altar boy and scout, alleges in the lawsuit he reported sexual abuse to the archdiocese when he was 16, but was told to “be quiet”.

In addition to the Boy Scouts of America and the archdiocese, the lawsuit also names the…