Guam archbishop's first sex abuse accuser testifies before Vatican tribunal

Guam archbishop’s first sex abuse accuser testifies before Vatican tribunal

Thursday, May 11th, 2017

HAGÅTÑA, Guam — Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke and the Vatican tribunal is wrapping up the discovery phase and is entering another phase in the groundbreaking canonical trial of Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron.

John Toves, the first to publicly accuse Apuron in 2014 of sexual abuse of a minor, testified before the Vatican tribunal at the archbishop’s residence in San Francisco on Monday (Tuesday, Guam time), about Apuron’s alleged sexual abuse of Toves’ cousin while the cousin was an altar boy at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagåtña. Continue reading

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Tags: Archbishop Anthony Apuron, Clergy Abuse

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