GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News July 1, 2016
Four people who publicly accused Archbishop Anthony Apuron of sexually abusing altar boys in Agat in the 1970s filed a lawsuit against the archbishop Friday, at the Superior Court of Guam.
In the lawsuit, they are accusing the archbishop of libel and slander. The filing took place at 11:43 a.m.
The plaintiffs in the suit are Doris Concepcion, Roy T. Quintanilla, Walter G. Denton and Roland Paul L. Sondia. Their attorney is David Lujan.
The filing was announced Friday, during a press conference at the Guam Law Library near the court.
Slander is a false or malicious claim that may harm someone’s reputation. Libel is a defamatory statement made in the form of print or broadcast.
Quintanilla, Denton and Sondia are former altar boys who said Apuron molested them during sleepovers at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church rectory in Agat in the 1970s. Denton said Apuron raped him.
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