GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
By Mindy Aguon | For the Guam Daily Post Mar 16, 2017
A 70-year-old Father Duenas Memorial School alumnus filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Guam alleging he was sexually abused and molested by his former teacher after being served church wine in the rectory of the Our Lady of Peace and Safe Journey Church in Chalan Pago during Holy Week in 1962.
William Payne, 70, alleges that former FD instructor and priest Father Antonio C. Cruz offered to give him driving lessons and then made him drink church wine in the rectory until he became mildly intoxicated when he was 15 years old, court documents state.
The lawsuit alleges that Cruz, who was Payne’s Algebra and Spanish instructor, told him, “You’re one of my good students, I like you” and then proceeded to molest Payne despite his efforts to make him stop before driving him back home.
Payne was in “a state of utter shock, fear and confusion in that Cruz was forcibly abusing him, and during Holy Week,” the lawsuit states.
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