GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Mindy Aguon | For The Guam Daily Post
John A.B. Pangelinan was proud to be a Boy Scout. At the age of 11, he knew the Scout oath and the importance of citizenship and his obligation to God. “On my honor to do my best, to do my duty to God,” he would recite the organization’s oath repeatedly.
He and the other Boy Scouts would often help out at Santa Teresita Catholic Church in Mangilao for Easter Vigil Mass. Other times, they would march in parades and play in baseball leagues for the Boy Scouts.
After one outing in 1961 or ‘62, Pangelinan was called for a photo shoot in the Mangilao parish rectory. Assuming it was for the organization, the boy went inside. Pangelinan alleges his Scout master, parish priest Louis Brouillard, instructed him to take off his clothes and stand naked in front of a three-sided mirror.
He was then subjected to a “photo shoot” as Brouillard allegedly took photos and video of the minor boy and touched his private parts.
Pangelinan is the 33rd sex abuse victim to come forward and file a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Agana and the first of Attorney David Lujan’s clients to file suit against the Boy Scouts of America, seeking a minimum of $10 million in damages for sexual abuse and molestation by Brouillard.
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