GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com
May 10, 2018
The Archdiocese of Agana on Thursday acknowledged the latest allegations of child sexual abuse and lawsuit filed against the church this week, which brings to 168 the total number of clergy sex abuse cases in local and federal courts since 2016.
Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes, in a statement, extended prayers for accuser A.A. and all people who have come forward recently with claims of sexual abuse by Guam Catholic clergy or lay person.
A.A., in his May 9 lawsuit, said the now deceased Father Antonio C. Cruz, layman James Untalan and an altar server sexually abused him while he was an altar boy at Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Tamuning around 1981 or 1982.
The archbishop asks all Catholics “to be ever vigilant in our duty to protect all children entrusted to the care of the Church.”
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