GUAM
Pacific Daily News
July 23, 2019
By Haidee Eugenio Gilbert
Two Barrigada men’s separate lawsuits alleging Father Louis Brouillard’s abused them in the late 1970s have been added to Guam’s clergy sex abuse claims, now at more than 230.
The plaintiffs are identified in federal court documents only by the initials I.V. and V.M. to protect their privacy. They are represented by attorney Michael Berman.
I.V., in his $5 million lawsuit, said Brouillard told him “not to worry” about the sexual abuses” because he was now a good boy and God will forgive all of his past sins and God will make sure he lived a good life.”
The lawsuits say the priest sexually abused I.V. and V.M. on church grounds and during Boy Scouts of America outings.
I.V. was attending the Barrigada parish from around 1978 to 1980 when he was about 9 to 11 years old. The abuses also happened after I.V. helped clean the church with a broom and a mop, the lawsuit says.
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