GUAM
USA Today
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News (Guam)
September 19, 2016
HAGATNA, Guam — A group of local Catholics has stepped forward to defend Guam Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron, saying he is being treated as if he already was found guilty of abusing altar boys.
The group, which calls itself I Familan Mangatoliku Siha Pari Si Apuron or Catholic Families for Apuron, led by Dr. Ricardo B. Eusebio, disagrees with statements made last weekend by temporary Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, who is running the local church pending a Vatican investigation into the abuse allegations against Apuron.
Several former Agat altar boys have accused Apuron of raping or molesting them in the 1970s, when he was parish priest.
Hon, in a written statement that he instructed to be read at Sunday Mass, said he is in Rome, urging the pope to remove Apuron and to appoint a successor.
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