GUAM
Pacific Daily News
April 2, 2018
By Haidee V. Eugenio
Guam’s clergy sex abuse cases have been stayed, which means the proceedings have been suspended, in light of the parties’ ongoing settlement negotiations.
Parties in the federal and local lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Agana and others associated with the Catholic Church are pursuing mediation to try to settle some 160 complaints of child sex abuse against priests and other clergy.
If out-of-court settlement fails, then motions can be renewed or refiled.
U.S. District Court of Guam Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood ordered a stay in the cases on March 30, after a recent status hearing wherein the parties indicated they would withdraw all pending motions in the clergy sex abuse cases in the interests of facilitating settlement and streamlining the court’s docket “with leave to refile at a later date in the event settlement cannot be reached.”
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