GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News June 28, 2016
A former candidate for Guam delegate told senators on Monday he was the first victim of clergy sexual abuse to come forward in Guam.
Jonathan Frank Blas Diaz testified before island lawmakers on Bill 326-33, a new measure that would lift the time limit on filing a lawsuit against a child molester.
“Nobody believed me,” Diaz said.
Diaz ran for Guam delegate in the 2012 election and entered the 2014 gubernatorial race as a write-in.
Diaz said he publicly spoke about his abuse as early as 1991 and up to when he testified in 2011 on a previous bill, which became law and gave victims of child sexual abuse a two-year window to file a lawsuit.
Members of the community called him “mentally ill” because he is a “bisexual man,” he said.
“Why bisexual? Because I was molested when I was 7 years old by an older cousin, and I was molested again when I was 13 years old and molested again when I was over the age of 16,” Diaz told senators.
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