GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com June 23, 2017
A now-deceased Guam priest, Father Antonio C. Cruz, allegedly raped and sexually abused an altar boy in Chalan Pago from 1960 to 1962, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
The plaintiff, identified in court documents only as S.N.J.C. to protect his privacy, alleged Cruz sexually abused and raped him when he was around 14 to 16 years old and serving as altar boy at the Our Lady of Peace and Safe Journey Catholic Church.
Now 71 years old, S.N.J.C. filed his lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Guam on Friday. He’s represented by attorney David Lujan.
The lawsuit says the alleged abuses started after a Sunday Mass when Cruz instructed S.N.J.C. to stay behind and meet him at the rectory. The priest allegedly told the boy that it was mannge, which means good in Chamorro, the complaint says.
“The sexual abuse and rape continued for the next two years,” the lawsuit alleges.
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