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Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Star-Bulletin Staff
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An Oahu man who received an apology and court settlement from a Catholic priest who molested him 29 years ago pled not guilty today to a charge that he raped a girl nine years ago on Kauai.
Eugene Saulibio, 44, is charged with four counts of first-degree sexual assault.
He made his plea before Kauai Circuit judge George Masuoka.
On Nov. 8 the Rev. Joseph Bukoski III and his order, the Fathers of Sacred Hearts, apologized for Bukoski’s sexual abuse of Saulibio in 1976.
Saulibio’s attorney Victor Bakke said today that the rape charges came as a complete surprise to his client.