Abuse suit names Catholic brother

CARLSBAD, N. M. (KRQE-KBIM) - A former Carlsbad Franciscan friar is facing another allegation of sexually abusing a teenage boy.

The earlier civil suit against Brother Kerry Guillory was filed in November 2007.

The alleged victim in the new case said the friar molested him when he was a teenager in the 1970s, according to the lawsuit.  He is just now coming forward and naming his alleged abuser.

Guillory was a friar then at San José parish in Carlsbad.

Attorney Kevin McGuire said his client was 16 years old when he was sexually abused by Guillory during a camping trip and in the parish play room.  The friar took the boy on a road trip and used alcohol and drugs to influence him, the attorney alleged.

The separate lawsuit filed last year contained similar allegations.  McGuire said that was a big reason why his client came forward.

"Brother Kerry had written essentially apologies and so forth to the previous victim, so I believe that we're on the right track here," McGuire said.

When the first lawsuit was filed, Guillory was working at the Franciscan Shelter House in the Archdiocese of Louisville, Ky.  It's a facility that provides clothes and meals to the needy.

However Guillory apparently no longer is employed there.

In additional to Guillory, the new lawsuit names the dioceses of Las Cruces and El Paso, Texas, and his religious order, the Conventual Franciscan Province of our Lady of Consolation.

The parties named in the lawsuit did not respond to requests for comment.