GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Louella Losinio | Post News Staff
An undisclosed number of individuals have contacted the Concerned Catholics of Guam since the group’s advertisements soliciting victims of sex abuse by members of the clergy came out last month.
More alleged victims have been contacting CCOG since the appearance of the ads in local media. Dee Reyes Peredo, one of the points of contact named in the ads, said: “There are victims who are not readily willing to come forward because of pain, embarrassment.”
She added that some of those who have contacted the organization would talk about others that they know have been abused or whom they have witnessed being abused.
The names are different but the stories are the same all over, she said.
Peredo confirmed that calls have been coming from different villages across the island. “There’s numbers,” she said, adding that there are those who are trying to come forward but still trying to gather the strength to do so from people who support them.
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