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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Keeping the faith alive

Signal Hill, California -

The artist, now 36, has added the words "$1.49 per pound" next to his smiling face, to symbolize how a priest snatched his 8-year-old body and, for three years, used it like a piece of meat.

Now, as one of 87 victims of clergy sexual abuse set to receive large sums from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, Calif., in a historic settlement, Guerrero's artistic statement also poses the question: How much money do the victims deserve?

"I'm grateful for (any money), but we're getting pennies for what happened to our lives," said Guerrero, stretched out on a brown armchair in the living room of his mother's two-bedroom condominium in Signal Hill.

Sad-eyed Minerva Guerrero, 61, watched her son, the third of four boys, from the couch as "Silent Night" played on the stereo. An artificial, white Christmas tree blinked incessantly. David's father, Robert, a 61-year-old dry-wall installer, was at work.

Read the article at Centre Daily Times dated 01/15/2005
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