GUAM
Radio New Zealand (RNZ)

October 23, 2017

The historical sexual abuse scandal in Guam’s Catholic Church continues to grow with allegations made against another priest.

A lawsuit has also been filed in relation to abuse by a now defrocked priest in the 1990s – raising questions about whether abuse may have been occurring more recently. But the church says it has now taken steps to prevent abuses.

Jo O’Brien reports.

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A deceased priest Monsignor Jose Guerrero is the latest to be accused of sexual abuse – his victim was just nine years old when five years of alleged abuse began in 1969. Another complainant says he tried to report eight years of abuse by a priest in the 1990s to Archbishop Anthony Apuron in 1999. His lawyer David Lujan says the Archbishop’s advice that prayer would help him get over it is not surprising,…