GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com April 19, 2017
Three new lawsuits filed Wednesday detailed former priest Louis Brouillard’s alleged sex abuse of children in the 1950s and 1970s on church premises and during Boy Scouts of America activities.
A man identified in court document as M.S. filed his suit in the Superior Court of Guam, while Thomas A. Cepeda Sr. and a man identified as M.W. filed theirs in the U.S. District Court of Guam. The federal cases each ask for $10 million in damages. Their lawsuits bring to 54 the total number of Guam clergy sex abuse lawsuits filed so far in local and federal courts.
Brouillard is being sued in 31 of the cases, and is accused, but isn’t being sued, in three others. The latest lawsuits named the Archdiocese of Agana, Brouillard and the Boy Scouts of America and its Aloha Council Chamorro District as defendants.
M.S. accused Brouillard of sexually abusing him many times when he was about 14 around 1972, in a church rectory, in a tent during Boy Scouts camping trips and during rides in Brouillard’s vehicle. M.S. is now 59 and lives on Guam.
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