GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com July 24, 2017
A 2016 Guam law does not allow the Boy Scouts of America to be retroactively sued for alleged child sexual abuse, its attorney stated in documents filed in the Superior Court of Guam.
“The court should dismiss with prejudice all claims against BSA and Aloha Council,” Boy Scouts attorney Patrick Civille said in a July 14 motion to dismiss.
Civille stated the 2016 law retroactively lifted the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse cases, but only for cases against the alleged abusers. He said the laws does not allow cases to be filed against third parties or institutions, such as the Boy Scouts, that are associated with the alleged abusers.
Former Guam priest Louis Brouillard, who also was a scoutmaster, allegedly sexually abused minor boy scouts during scouting activities and on parish grounds, dozens of lawsuits filed in local and federal court state. Most of the cases accusing Brouillard list the Boy Scouts, its Aloha Council Chamorro District and the Archdiocese of Agana as defendants. Four of those cases name only the church, and not the Boy Scouts as defendants.
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