GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Mindy Aguon |For The Guam Daily Post Mar 8, 2017
Two former altar boys have come forward and filed lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Agana and the late Father Antonio C. Cruz for alleged sexual abuse that occurred on the parish grounds at Our Lady of Peace and Safe Journey Catholic Church in Chalan Pago.
Richard Scroggs, 57, and Tomas Afaisen De Plata, 62, allege they were sexually abused and molested by Cruz when he was the parish priest.
De Plata alleges that he was repeatedly sexually molested by Cruz. In September 1963, Cruz offered to pay De Plata to help clean the Chalan Pago parish rectory. The lawsuit states that Cruz left to meet another priest then returned and called De Plata to his bedroom and began performing oral copulation on him. In the midst of the sexual act, Father Louis Brouillard entered the room and took pictures of Cruz performing oral sex on the 11-year-old boy, the lawsuit alleges.
Brouillard allegedly told Cruz, “I’ll give you the pictures later.” Cruz instructed De Plata not to say anything and paid him $50.
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