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Guam Daily Post
Confidential documents: Vatican opened case against Apuron in 2008
Mindy Aguon | For the Post
A tribunal from the Vatican, which will be led by a cardinal, is scheduled to hold a secret hearing on Guam this week to speak to at least one of the victims accusing Archbishop Anthony Apuron of sexual abuse.
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, a canon lawyer and former head of the Vatican’s supreme court, signed a decree on Feb. 3, 2017, requesting that one of Apuron’s accusers, Roland Sondia, appear personally before Burke later this week on Guam.
The cardinal wrote the decree “in fulfilling the office of judge.”
Sondia was being summoned “for the purpose of giving testimony” in the Apuron case, according to the decree.
A Vatican equivalent of prosecutor and an advocate for the accused will also hear the accuser’s testimony, according to the decree.
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