GUAM
Guam Daily Post
By Mindy Aguon | For the Post Feb 13, 2017
A retired bishop of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is accused of sexually abusing an altar boy for at least three years until the victim ran away.
Melvin Duenas, a Yona resident, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Guam this afternoon against the Archbishop of Agana, retired Bishop Emeritus Tomas Aguon Camacho, and Louis Brouillard, a former priest who worked at parishes and schools on Guam.
Camacho was a member of the clergy of the Agana Archdiocese who became a priest in June 1961 and ordained a bishop in January 1985. He served as bishop until he retired in April 2010 and currently serves as bishop emeritus for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in Saipan, the main island of the CNMI.
In the complaint, which seeks a minimum of $5 million in damages, Duenas alleges he was repeatedly sexually molested and raped by Camacho. At the time, Camacho was the priest for the Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Inarajan.
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