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Anita Hofschneider

Anita Hofschneider is a journalist based in Hawaii

July 2020

  • Walter Denton, 55, stands behind a photo of himself when he was about 12 years old, in Hagatna, Guam, in May 2019.

    Full Story
    'Look what he’s taken from me': one man's fight against child abuse in the church

    Today we speak to one alter boy, Walter Denton, about his search for justice and how he helped bring change to the island of Guam.

May 2020

  • Walter Denton outside the former rectory of Anthony Apuron, the former archbishop of Guam, whom Denton alleges abused him as a child.

    The Pacific project
    'Look what he's taken from me': the deadly toll of Catholic church sex abuse on Guam

    There are now nearly 300 sexual abuse lawsuits against more than 20 priests on the deeply religious island in the western Pacific

February 2020

  • Bertilia Yamasta teaches her kindergarten class at at P.C. Lujan Elementary in Guam to speak CHamoru, the traditional language of the Mariana Islands.

    The Pacific project
    The fight to save CHamoru, a language the US military tried to destroy

    Residents of the Mariana Islands are pushing to revive their indigenous language amid fears it might soon die out