GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com Feb. 15, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago
Vatican representatives on Thursday morning are scheduled to receive testimony from a former altar boy allegedly sexually assaulted by Archbishop Anthony Apuron in the 1970s. Groups of Catholics plan to be there to show their support for Roland Sondia and other clergy sex abuse survivors.
Sondia is currently an employee of the Pacific Daily News.
“We are seeking justice for Mr. Sondia, other clergy abuse victims and the whole of Guam. We would like to show the Vatican our mistrust of Apuron, and we hope the Vatican will speed up the trial and defrock Apuron,” David Sablan, president of Concerned Catholics of Guam, said Wednesday.
Apuron is undergoing a canonical trial, a process which started after former altar boys, including Sondia, came forward last spring to accuse Apuron of raping or sexually abusing them when he was parish priest in Agat.
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, in a one-page Feb. 3 decree, requested Sondia’s presence at 10 a.m., Feb. 16, at the Archdiocesan Chancery “for the purpose of giving said testimony.”
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