Lawsuit: Priest raped Barrigada girl in 1970s, told her she’s going to heaven for it

HAGATNA (GUAM)
Pacific Daily News

July 15, 2019

By Haidee Eugenio Gilbert

A lawsuit filed on Monday alleges that Father Louis Brouillard, in or about 1974 to 1975, sexually abused and raped a Barrigada girl and told her she’s going to heaven for being a “good girl.”

The plaintiff, now 55 years old, is identified in federal court documents only by the initials E.A.B. to protect her privacy.

After raping the girl at the Barrigada church’s back room, the priest told her “she will never go to hell because she is a good girl and that the devil will never take (her) because she was with a priest and that he will keep the devil away,” the lawsuit says.

Brouillard went on to sexually abuse the girl for about two years, including during outings of the Boy Scouts of America at Lonfit River with other boys and girls, the lawsuit says.

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