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KUAM
Updated: Sep 12, 2016
By Krystal Paco
In the last few months we’ve heard from Roy Quintanilla, Walter Denton, Roland Sondia, Doris Concepcion on behalf of her late son Joseph “Sonny” Quinata, and Leo Tudela. Each of the men alleges they were altar boys when they were molested or raped by the hands of church clergy. And now, another man who served as an altar boy at Our Lady of Peace in Chalan Pago alleges he was a witness to as well as a victim of child sex abuse.
The year was 1964. Ramon Afaisen De Plata was an altar boy at Our Lady of Peace Parish when he alleges he and his older brother witnessed Pale Antonio Cruz and then-seminarian Anthony Apuron engaging in sexual acts with another altar boy during a sleepover at the rectory.
De Plata told KUAM News, “I woke up late in the night to use the restroom. When I entered Pale Cruz’s bedroom, I saw Pale Cruz lying on the bed naked. One of the altar boys was on the bed naked. He was lying on his side.”
The altar boy was performing fellatio on Pale Cruz while Apuron performed fellatio on the boy. That boy, De Plata says, is not alive today to tell his story. De Plata, who is now 62 years old, says he and his brother never talked about that sighting ever again. But De Plata would later tell his mother about other encounters he had with the priest.
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