GUAM
Pacific Daily News
January 25, 2019
By Haidee V Eugenio
A law firm representing dozens of Guam clergy sex abuse plaintiffs is now also reaching out to child sexual abuse survivors in Chuuk and Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, from the 1950s to the present.
The law firm of Berman O’Connor & Mann is seeking individuals who may have been victims of sex abuse while a minor and while attending Catholic schools and Catholic parishes in Chuuk and Pohnpei.
Public notices have been placed on Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and notices in the FSM may follow, according to Attorney Michael Berman, who represents some three-dozen Guam clergy sex abuse plaintiffs.
At least two priests, now deceased, have been identified by the law firm in potential lawsuits involving cases in Pohnpei and Chuuk.
“The process in the FSM is just beginning,” Berman said.
Pohnpei, Chuuk and other FSM residents have moved to Guam throughout the years, under a compact with the United States.
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