GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
November 15, 2017
By Mindy Aguon and John O’Connor
A former priest of the Archdiocese of Agana, defrocked and implicated in several sex abuse lawsuits, died on Tuesday.
Raymond F. Cepeda had been ill for many years, according to family members. He was 66 years old.
His death was mentioned in court by attorney Jacqueline Taitano-Terlaje during a hearing for sex abuse cases involving her client, suspended Archbishop Anthony Apuron, yesterday at the District Court of Guam.
Cepeda previously served as a priest at the San Vicente-San Roke Church in Barrigada and the Santa Barbara Church in Dededo.
He was laicized in 2009 for “serious allegations of abuse.”
Cepeda has been named in more than 10 cases of child sexual abuse from the 1980s and ’90s.
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