GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | Post News Staff Feb 14, 2017
Bishop Ryan Jimenez of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in Saipan said that while the church will give their full cooperation with civil authorities in any investigation into the allegations of child sexual abuse made against Bishop Emeritus Tomas Camacho, they can offer no further comment as the matter is in litigation.
“It is with deep sadness and great bearing to learn of the sexual abuse allegations in a civil claim against then-priest and now Bishop Emeritus Tomas A. Camacho by a Guam resident Melvin Duenas,” Jimenez said in a letter released to the media. “I request for your prayers for everyone affected by this news – those who have sought and continue to seek redress from abuses, the accused and their journey to realize due process, the families on each side that are struck with a heavy weight of pain that comes with each sharing and everyone within our midst who are affected one way or another.”
Camacho was named, along with former Guam priest Louis Brouillard and the Archdiocese of Agana, in the latest in a series of child sexual abuse allegations by former altar boys stretching back decades.
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