ARIZONA
The Republic
[with video]
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, The Republic | azcentral.com June 20, 2017
Chandler resident Francis Charfauros, 49, wanted to be a priest when he was younger, but he said an encounter with Father Jack Niland when he was 14 and living on the small Pacific island of Guam changed that.
Charfauros is now one of many who have brought lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Agana in Guam for alleged sexual abuse that went on at the rectory there.
The lawsuit alleges that Niland molested Charfauros while he was living at the rectory in 1982 during a sleepover at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church rectory in the Guam village of Agat.
Charfauros is the 67th person to file a Guam clergy sex abuse lawsuit in local and federal courts after the statute of limitations was lifted late last year. Charfauros filed his suit in federal court in May.
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