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Feb 20, 2018

Sex abuse claim against Guam church brings total lawsuits to 157

Catholic Church in Guam
RNZ
February 20, 2018

Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Church in Guam, bringing the total lawsuits alleging historical sexual abuse to 157.

The latest case, against a priest Louis Brouillard, is for raping an altar boy during sleepovers when he was a teenager in the 1970s.

Mr Brouillard, who is now 96, was on Guam from 1948 to 1981, and is accused of abusing boys in 100 of the lawsuits the church is facing.

He has admitted abusing boys during his time on Guam, before the church relocated him to the United States mainland.

Fifteen other priests, two archbishops and a bishop have also been implicated in abuse that spans from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s.

So far, the sum of the lawsuits the Catholic Church is facing exceeds $US600 million.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/350833/sex-abuse-claim-against-guam-church-brings-total-lawsuits-to-157
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Sep 4, 2017

Law suits pile up against Guam Catholic church

RNZ
September 4, 2017

More than 100 child sex abuse lawsuits have now been filed against the Catholic church on Guam.

An abuse scandal has consumed the church on the island, where about 85 percent of the population is Catholic.

The Pacific Daily News reported that two more lawsuits were filed on Friday, accusing two former priests of abuse in the 1970s.

One of the plaintiffs claimed a former priest, Louis Brouillard, who faces 58 other cases, abused him on scout camps.

The other accused a different priest, Antonio Cruz, who has since died, of abusing him when he was an altar boy.

The Catholic church now faces 101 lawsuits on Guam, demanding more than $US655 million in damages.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/338611/law-suits-pile-up-against-guam-catholic-church
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Dec 28, 2016

CultNEWS101 Articles: 12/28/2017

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Bikram Yoga, Scientology, Good News Church, Jehovah's Witness, Catholic Church, DRC, FLDS, Polygamy, Abuse-child, legal, Guam, Congo


A California judge granted Jafa-Bodden’s request for assigned rights to payments from any licensing, franchise or intellectual property agreements owned by Choudhury or his yoga teacher college, including revenue streams from the studios, his “Bikram yoga” and “Bikram” trademarks, numerous domain names, and copyrights for his books and training courses.
"He’s a tough kid and smart," he continued. "Once [Scientology founder] L.Ron Hubbard died, he saw his opportunity and he moved right up and took power.”
"Dong Wook Kim admitted to using a “stick” — which police later discovered to be a two-by-four plank — to beat the boy 20 times with considerable force, according to the complaint. The pastor said that he “was really upset at the time” over the boy’s rejection of God."

"A Jehovah’s Witness preacher and elder has been jailed for having sexual activity with a girl of 14.

Family man Daniel Arthington, 46, of Llanddaniel, Anglesey, pleaded guilty at Caernarfon Crown Court and was sent to prison for two years and eight months."
Sixty-two-year-old Ramon Afaisen De Plata alleged that he was molested by Reverend Antonio Cruz, who is now dead, in 1964, when he was 10-years-old.

Mr De Plata's lawsuit is the 14th filed against Guam's Catholic Church since the government in September removed the statue of limitations that prevented historical cases from being prosecuted.

"Police open fire on followers of a sect belonging to a man named Wami Nene, who claimed to have special powers."
"Seventeen people have been killed in clashes between DR Congo police and members of a cult that believes the end of President Joseph Kabila's mandate will usher in the apocalypse, a regional governor said Thursday.

Bienvenu Esimba, governor of DR Congo's northwestern Mongala province, said the clashes broke out Wednesday in the provincial capital Lisala when members of the sect burned dozens of houses and attacked a market before launching an assault on local electoral commission offices.

“It’s the first parade of lights in Hildale,” said Donia Jessop, vice president of Short Creek Festivities, the organizing body behind the event. “It’s the first light show. It’s the first light anything.”
"A high-ranking Utah polygamous group leader charged in a multimillion dollar food-stamp fraud case agreed to a plea deal Thursday that secured his release from jail after six months."



Since 1983, the Church of Scientology has ran a Santa Claus photo-op on Hollywood Boulevard, where they hand out their founder's writings to visitors, but they deny using it to attract new members.

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