GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com May 28, 2017
Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes met in private for the first time with a family who says their life has been broken by Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron. Forty years ago, he allegedly raped the now deceased, former altar boy Joseph “Sonny” Quinata.
But the family said it is now putting the broken pieces together so they can all heal.
“The actions of one man have affected a whole generation of my family…I lost a brother and my children lost a father. This man affected my brother and myself,” John Michael “Champ” Quinata, 47, told Pacific Daily News.
Champ Quinata publicly accused Apuron of repeatedly raping his older brother Sonny when Sonny was 9 years old, in 1977.
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