GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Written by Janela Carrera
Apuron says the cases are so old that he would not have the benefit of witnesses, memory, physical evidence or records to be able to effective defend himself from the allegations of sexual abuse.
Guam – Still hiding from plain view in California, ousted Archbishop Anthony Apuron broke his silence in federal court, responding to the allegations of sexual abuse filed against him.
Through his attorney Jacque Terlaje, Archbishop Apuron filed a motion for the cases against him to be dismissed. Apuron cites the recently passed Guam law that lifted the statute of limitations for filing civil claims against institutions for cases of sexual abuse but says that the law does not quote retroactively revive a decades old statute.
He further says in court papers “the attempt to revive a more than 30-year-old time-barred cause of action is impermissibly inorganic.”
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