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Pacific Daily News
October 26, 2017
By Haidee V. Eugenio
[Note: See also Judge Joaquin V.E. Manibusan, Jr.’s report.]
Archbishop Anthony Apuron released a recorded video Tuesday evening in which he denied allegations that he sexually abused an altar boy about 40 years ago.
Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron said a federal judge’s report, stating that the clergy sex abuse lawsuits against Apuron should not be dismissed, is “erroneous and contrary to law, and should be rejected.”
Apuron has again asked U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood to dismiss the complaints against him, stating the incidents, which allegedly happened more than 40 years ago, are time-barred and take away the archbishop’s due process rights.
The archbishop is represented by attorney Jacqueline Terlaje.
Apuron is being sued in federal court for allegedly sexually abusing or raping four altar boys in Agat in the 1970s when he was a parish priest. He is also undergoing a Vatican canonical trial to determine his fate as a member of the clergy.
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