GUAM
Pacific News Center
[with video]
Written by Janela Carrera
This brings the number of alleged victims to three.
Guam – Explosive details from another man who says Archbishop Anthony Apuron raped him when he was 13 years old. Now 52, Walter Denton is the third victim to come forward with sex abuse allegations against the archbishop.
“It hurts so much just thinking about it. It’s like it just happened yesterday,” says Denton as he holds back tears.
Denton says it happened on April 16, 1977 at the rectory of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church in Agat. He slept over at the request of Apuron who was a priest at the time. Here are excerpts from his statement, some of which are graphic in nature.
“I said I was going to sleep on the lazy boy chair. He said no and he insisted I sleep in the bedroom with him,” he describes. “Sometime late that evening or early morning I woke up feeling something–.”
At this point, Denton is struggling to maintain his composure.
“I felt something penetrating me. I was pinned down to the bed on my stomach with my legs spread apart. I could not move my arms or my legs. I was crying out to him asking him to please stop. I kept saying that it hurt so much,” he recalls as he wiped away tears.
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