Pacific News Center
October 20, 2009
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Guam - After a shocking revelation of Sexual abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest Vice-Speaker BJ Cruz and other Senators met with Archbishop Anthony Apuron and other clergy members in Tumon this morning. The topic of discussion was the highly controversial and divisive same sex civil union debate.
During this mornings closed door meeting the Vice-Speaker says he told the Archbishop to get rid of any pedophile priests he may have on Guam before focussing on keeping same sex civil unions from occuring on the island.
Cruz is a self admitted victim of sexual abuse by the clergy. The Vice-Speaker says his first sexual experience happened when he was 13 years old. He was attending a Salesian run Catholic School when a priest would regualarly wake him in the middle of the night and have sex with him. Cruz says they would then “bathe brush their teeth and then the priest would serve me mass”
Cruz believes sexual abuse by members of the clergy is still happening right here right now on guam. He even references a case brough to his attention a month ago when an individual came to his office to report a complaint of sexual abuse he says he made directly to the Archbishop. According to Cruz this unamed individual's complaint dealt with a local priest. The complain according to Cruz was never dealt with.
So why bring all of this up now? The vice-speaker says that he decided to go public when the Archbishop began speaking out against homesexuals during his homelies. Despite repeated attempts PNC was unable to get a comment from the Catholic Church.
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