GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Allegations of sexual abuse have been raised against a former priest on Guam who is credited with having established the altar boy program at Mount Carmel Catholic Church in the early 1970s.
A civil lawsuit, filed by an individual with the initials “J.M.,” alleges Father Sigmund Hafemann sexually abused the plaintiff while he was a parishioner at the Agat church.
Hafemann is credited with establishing the altar boy program at Mount Carmel Catholic Church, said the plaintiff’s local counsel, Kevin Fowler, who filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in the Superior Court of Guam.
The victim, who is now 54, alleges he was first abused when he was 10, when he accompanied his mom while she cleaned the church.
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