GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News June 27, 2016
Individuals who recently accused Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of sexually molesting them when they were altar boys in Agat in the 1970s testified Monday in favor of a bill lifting time limits on filing lawsuits against child molesters.
Another individual, Jonathan Diaz, also addressed senators at the Guam Legislature in Hagåtña, and said a seminarian who later became a priest sexually abused him when he was 13 and 16 years old. Diaz said nobody believed him when he came forward in 1991.
“You didn’t believe me. Believe them,” Diaz told senators, while pointing to the four other accusers of Apuron seated in the public hearing room of the Legislature.
Apuron hasn’t been charged with any crime.
Arizona resident Walter G. Denton, who accused Apuron of “raping” him, flew back to Guam from the mainland on Sunday just to testify in favor of Bill 326-33.
“Give us Agat boys a chance to achieve some measure of justice and closure in our lives,” he said.
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