GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Jasmine Stole , Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno and Shawn Raymundo, sraymundo@guampdn.com
June 18, 2016
When Archbishop Anthony Apuron was publicly accused in 2014 of having allegedly molested a boy while Apuron was a parish priest almost 30 years ago, accuser John Toves’ calls for an investigation went unheard.
After days of failed efforts to seek an audience with Apuron, and after having exhausted media interviews and sending letters to officials of the Catholic church locally and to Pacific representatives of the Vatican, then 50-year-old Toves left Guam and returned to his life in California. The Archdiocese of Agana threatened Toves with a lawsuit if he didn’t stop accusing the archbishop.
“They were communicated through all the proper channels, but they weren’t forwarded beyond certain points,” Toves said Thursday. “My documents never reached that far.”
At the time, Toves said when he was a 16-year-old altar boy, Toves’ cousin and co-seminarian at a high school seminary in Guam, was allegedly sexually abused. The alleged victim also was an altar boy, in the parish in Agat where Apuron was a priest, according to Toves’ allegation.
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