GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com April 16, 2017
A former Agat altar boy and the mother of a now deceased altar boy testified before a Vatican tribunal for the canonical penal trial of Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron, who is accused of raping and sexually abusing four altar boys in the 1970s.
Walter G. Denton, who accused Apuron of raping him during a sleepover at a church rectory when he was 13 in 1977, said he gave his testimony to the Vatican tribunal led by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke on March 17 at the Archbishop’s Residence in San Francisco, California.
“I have waited a long time to tell people my story. Telling my story to the tribunal was like telling my story to the Pope. I feel that these Vatican officials are representing the Pope himself. I wanted everyone to hear my testimony. I just wanted to tell someone who would listen to what happen to me,” Denton told Pacific Daily News.
Denton said the tribunal is hoping that Apuron’s canonical trial would be completed sometime early summer, based on information he got from the Rev. Justin M. Wachs. Wachs serves as the Vatican court reporter for the Apuron trial.
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