GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com Feb. 13, 2017
Tomas A. Camacho, Saipan’s bishop emeritus, has been accused of raping and sexually abusing a former altar boy on Guam from about 1971 to 1974. The accusations are part of the 17th clergy sex abuse case filed in Guam’s federal court since January.
In the complaint, Melvin Duenas, now a 55-year-old resident of Yona, said former Guam priest Louis Brouillard also abused him. Brouillard publicly admitted in 2016 that he sexually abused more than 20 altar boys when he was on Guam, his home from the late 1940s to 1981.
Camacho was bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa from 1984 until his retirement in April 2010 at the age of 76. He has since served as bishop emeritus.
Duenas filed a lawsuit on Monday in the U.S. District of Guam, alleging Camacho sexually abused and raped him multiple times from approximately 1971 to 1974, when Camacho was priest at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Inarajan.
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