GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com Published April 5, 2017 | Updated 3 hours ago
Guam’s clergy sex abuse cases increased to 45 on Wednesday, with former priest Andrew Manetta named as a defendant in the two latest filings.
Two men, identified only with their initials — “M.B.” and “G.G.” — to protect their privacy, alleged Manetta sexually molested them during sleepovers at the rectory of Santa Teresita Church in Mangilao, around 1986 to 1987, when they were altar boys, ages 13 and 14, respectively.
One of their attorneys, Randall Rosenberg, of Hawaii, described Manetta in the lawsuit as a “notorious pedophile” who was shifted from parish to parish within Guam before being transferred to Hawaii.
Originally from New York, Manetta first came to Guam in 1980 as a seminarian and was ordained into the priesthood at the Archdiocese of Agana in May 1983, according to Pacific Daily News files. Manetta was accused of sexually abusing a minor in Hawaii, from 1997 to 2001, but the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu settled with the accuser for $375,000 to avoid trial, PDN news files state. The priest later was transferred to New York.
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