GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Mindy Aguon | For The Guam Daily Post
A former priest who worked in Guam and Hawaii “left a trail of abused and broken children” everywhere the Church sent him, said attorneys representing two former altar boys who allege they were sexually abused between 1986 and 1987 by Father Andrew “Andy” Mannetta.
Mannetta, 61, is named for the first time in civil lawsuits filed in the Superior Court of Guam by a team of attorneys, including Attorney Anthony C. Perez, the James, Vernon and Weeks law firm in Washington, and Attorney Randall Rosenberg in Hawaii.
The alleged abuse occurred while the victims were altar boys and Mannetta was the parish priest at Santa Teresita Catholic Church in Mangilao.
One lawsuit, filed by “M.B.,” to protect his identity, alleges that Mannetta hosted “sleep overs” for the altar boys at the Mangilao parish rectory and required the boys to only wear their underwear. The lawsuit alleges that Mannetta would provide alcohol such as communion wine to the boys, display sexually explicit movies and command the boys to give him a group massage.
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