A retired bishop in the Northern Marianas has
been accused of sex abuse against an altar boy. The charges date back to
1971, when Tomas Camacho served as a priest in Guam and, as we hear
from Neal Conan in today’s Pacific News Minute, it’s just the latest in a
long series of accusations.
By
this point, the outline of the charges looks very familiar. According
to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Guam, Melvin Duenas alleges
that he was abused from the age of ten, when he was chief altar boy at
St. Joseph Catholic Church, where Tomas Camacho served as a priest. The
abuse only stopped, when Duenas ran away from the rectory sometime in
1974 or ‘75.