HAGATNA (GUAM)
Pacific Daily News
July 11, 2019
By Haidee Eugenio Gilbert
A lawsuit filed on Thursday afternoon says a Sinajana boy was sexually abused in the early 1970s by two now-deceased priests, including one who told the boy’s mother that the molestation and attempted rape were not true.
The plaintiff is identified in federal court documents only with the initials H.H.H. to protect his privacy,.
In his $5 million lawsuit, H.H.H. said Father Louis Brouillard sexually abused him a few times around 1972 or 1973, and Father Antonio Cruz sexually molested and attempted to rape him once around 1973.
H.H.H., represented by attorney David Lujan, said he was about 12 to 13 years old at the time of the priests’ abuses.
He said in his lawsuit that after at least four Boy Scouts of America swimming at Lonfit River, he became uncomfortable because Brouillard, a scoutmaster at the time, “encouraged, insisted, required and forced the boys to swim completely in the nude.”
The priest, according to the lawsuit, said these were for the purpose of teaching each boy to paddle with the hands and feet, while Brouillard touched and stroked each boy’s private parts.
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