GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com Published May 22, 2017
Former Agat altar boy Walter Denton, who has accused Archbishop Anthony Apuron of raping him when he was a child, has said he told another priest — Father Jack Niland — about the rape at the time, but said Niland’s response was that “priesthood is a very lonely life.”
Niland, who died in 2009, is now accused of molesting Francis Charfauros, now 49. Charfauros, who said Niland was supposed to train him to be a priest, filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court of Guam, suing the church for $5 million.
Father John “Jack” Niland is now the 12th Guam priest accused accused of sexually abusing children decades ago.
Charfauros, who now lives in Arizona, alleged in his complaint that Niland sexually abused him in 1982, when he was around 14, during a sleepover at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church rectory in Agat.
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