GUAM
Pacific Daily News
[with video]
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com June 22, 2017
A 14th Guam priest is accused of raping and sexually molesting a boy more than 100 times in the 1980s, starting on the boy’s seventh birthday, in a lawsuit filed Thursday, June 22.
Father Ray Techaira allegedly raped and sexually molested the boy from 1984 through 1987, the lawsuit filed in the District Court of Guam says. Techaira is now dead, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiff, identified in court documents only as J.A. to protect his identity, is now 40 years old and is living in Oregon.
J.A., represented by attorney David Lujan, demands a jury trial and $5 million in minimum damages.
The alleged rape and molestation happened mostly at the Nino Perdido y Sagrada Familia Catholic Church in Asan, the lawsuit says.
“From approximately 1984 through 1987, around the ages of 7 through 10, J.A. was sexually molested and raped by Techaira more than one-hundred times,” the lawsuit states.
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