GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com
April 24, 2018
A now deceased Capuchin priest, Father Daniel Cristobal, has been named for the first time in a Guam clergy sex abuse lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court.
The plaintiff, identified in court documents only as C.A. to protect his privacy, said in his lawsuit that Cristobal repeatedly sexually molested and abused him immediately after C.A. became an altar boy in or about 1979 at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Santa Rita.
C.A. said in his lawsuit that the abuses occurred “several times a week for about a two-year period” and they included fondling, groping, masturbation and oral copulation.
C.A., now 46, said he was about 8 years old when the priest abused him repeatedly.
‘You are blessed’
The first incident occurred before Mass at the Santa Rita parish, the lawsuit says. The priest pulled up a chair to sit down, instructed C.A. to stand in front of him and then abused the boy after telling him he’s happy that he’s now an altar boy.
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