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Two more former students of Damien Memorial School who claim to have been sexually abused by a teacher there are taking advantage of a state law that temporarily waives the statute of limitations for filing sexual abuse lawsuits involving minors.
The two men filed a joint lawsuit in state court Wednesday under the names John Roe No. 3 and John Roe No. 4 against the Congregation of Christian Brothers of Hawaii, Damien Memorial School, the Roman Catholic Church in Hawaii and Brother Robert N. Brouillette.
One of the men claims that Brouillette sexually assaulted him in 1984 when he was 13 years old and Brouillette was his teacher.
The other man claims that Brouillette sexually assaulted him in 1986 when he was also 13 years old and Brouillette was his teacher.
A spokesman said school officials could not comment on the lawsuit because they had not seen it.
A spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Hawaii said the diocese has no comment.
Brouillette could not be reached for comment.
Police in Illinois arrested Brouillette in 1998 after he used the Internet to arrange to have sex with someone he thought was a 12-year-old boy. Police later found a collection of child pornography in Brouillette’s residence.
Brouillette was later convicted of possession of child pornography and soliciting a minor for sex and sentenced to four years of probation.
In May a Honolulu man filed a lawsuit under the name John Roe 1 against Damien Memorial and the Rev. Gerald Funcheon, a former chaplain and teacher at the school, alleging sexual abuse suffered during an overnight retreat in the 1980s when he was a 13-year-old freshman.