GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | The Guam Daily Post May 2, 2017
A former monsignor of the Archdiocese of Agana has been named in the latest child sexual abuse lawsuit filed in the District Court of Guam.
According to court documents, a plaintiff by the initials H.J.C. has accused former Guam priest Raymond Cepeda and now-deceased Monsignor Zoilo Camacho of child sexual abuse from 1974 through 1980 at the Santa Barbara Catholic Church in Dededo.
The lawsuit described H.J.C. as having been raised in a devout Catholic family that regularly attended Mass, volunteered at functions and donated money to the church. Though H.J.C. was not an altar boy, court documents indicate that he would volunteer his services by helping to clean around the church after services.
The 53-year-old H.J.C. alleged Camacho gave him gifts and toys when he attended the Dededo parish between the ages of 11 and 15 and, on numerous occasions, would fondle his private parts and force H.J.C. to masturbate him.
“On several occasions, during confession, Camacho would instruct H.J.C. to close his eyes and start to fondle H.J.C.,” court documents state. “Camacho would then take H.J.C.’s hand, put it on Camacho’s penis and force H.J.C. to masturbate Chamacho. Whenever H.J.C. attempted to pull his hand away, Camacho would say, ‘Boboy don’t worry’ and he would tell H.J.C. that he would buy (him) more toys.”
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