HAGATNA (GUAM)
Pacific Daily News
July 17, 2019
By Steve Limtiaco
A man who took confirmation classes at the Chalan Pago church in the mid-1980s, when he was a teenager, has accused Father Andrew Manetta, who was parish priest at the time, of sexually assaulting him during a sleepover.
The man, identified in Superior Court of Guam documents by the initials L.L.L., has asked for at least $5 million in damages from the Capuchin Franciscans, Manetta’s religious order.
According to the lawsuit, Manetta molested L.L.L. when he and another boy slept over at the priest’s residence to help prepare for a swimming outing for the confirmation class.
It states Manetta caught the two boys smoking marijuana, then smoked a marijuana joint himself and gave the boys wine.
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