GUAM
Pacific Daily News
March 16, 2018
By Haidee V. Eugenio and Dana M. Williams
A Vatican tribunal found Archbishop Anthony Apuron guilty of sexually abusing minors, removing him from office and exiling him from the island.
The Vatican said in a statement that Apuron’s trial has concluded, and the tribunal “has issued its sentence of first instance, finding the accused guilty of certain accusations and imposing upon the accused the penalties of privation of office and prohibition of residence in the Archdiocese of Guam.”
The announcement said the sentence remains subject to possible appeal.
“In the absence of an appeal, the sentence becomes final and effective,” the Vatican said. “In the case of an appeal, the imposed penalties are suspended until final resolution.”
Apuron was suspended as archbishop in June 2016 following public allegations that he had sexually abused altar boys when he was the parish priest in Agat in the 1970s. He denied the accusations and threatened to sue his accusers.
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