GUAM
Pacific Daily News
October 6, 2017
By Haidee V Eugenio
A lawsuit filed Friday in federal court states that clergy sex abuse on Guam happened as recently as 2006 or 2007, when former Capuchin brother Vernon Kamiaz allegedly molested an Agana Heights Parish altar boy.
Most of the clergy abuse suits filed so far – nearly 130 – allege children were abused decades ago, from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s.
The plaintiff, identified in court documents only as J.C.M.P. to protect his privacy, said in his lawsuit that Kamiaz was actively involved with training altar boys at the Agana Heights Parish and was also his neighbor and family friend.
J.C.M.P. was 12 or 13 when the alleged sex abuse happened, his lawsuit states. He is now 23.
J.C.M.P. is represented by attorney David Lujan and demands $5 million in minimum damages.
Attorney Gloria L. Rudolph, of the law firm of Lujan and Wolff, confirmed that J.C.M.P. is the youngest to file a clergy abuse suit.
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