GUAM
The Guam Daily Post

December 22, 2017

By Kevin Kerrigan

The number of sex abuse cases accusing former Guam priests of sexual abuse decades ago now total 147.

And there are more cases to come, said attorney Michael Patterson, who is representing the Archdiocese of Agana, in a hearing yesterday in the District Court. “There are a couple more to be added on here soon,” he said.

In reviewing the cases, Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood observed that there are now more abuse cases on Guam than there were in Hawaii, which has been dealing with a similar series of clergy abuse cases.

Currently, 103 of the Guam cases are in federal court before Tydingco-Gatewood. Superior Court Judge Michael Bordallo presides over 44 others. Tydingco-Gatewood said she’ll meet with Bordallo in January to work out procedures for handling the local and federal cases going forward.

In April 2016, nearly…