GUAM
Pacific Daily News
November 15, 2017
By Steve Limtiaco
A 58-year-old man has accused former Guam priest Antonio Cruz, who died more than 30 years ago, of sexually abusing him in 1974, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Guam.
The lawsuit, filed by a man identified only by the initials “L.J.G.” states Cruz was close friends with the man’s parents and visited the family weekly.
It is the 143rd lawsuit filed in federal or local court, accusing a clergy member or other person associated with the Catholic Church on Guam of sexual abuse.
It is the 10th lawsuit accusing Cruz of sexual abuse. If the allegations are true, Cruz abused boys on Guam for about 20 years, from 1957 to 1977. Cruz died in 1986.
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