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	'Perv' Priest Was Known As Abuser Associated Press, carried in New York Post October 23, 2006 http://www.nypost.com/seven/10232006/news/regionalnews/perv_priest_was_known_as_abuser_regionalnews_.htm Syracuse - A former Catholic priest, accused last week of sexually abusing a boy five or six years ago, had been barred from the ministry in 1993 after his former diocese in Delaware found he had abused "about three or four" children there. Francis DeLuca, 77, is now charged with sexual abuse of a boy who was 12 or 13 at the time. He is now 18. DeLuca was arrested Thursday in Syracuse, where he had been allowed to retire. He had not been a priest in Syracuse. "It breaks my heart to learn that someone in Syracuse may have been victimized by a removed priest of our diocese," said the Most Rev. Michael Saltarelli, bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington, Del. Bob Krebs, a Wilmington Diocese spokesman, said an investigation after a complaint in 1993 found DeLuca had molested three or four children in the 1960s. DeLuca was immediately removed from the ministry. Krebs said DeLuca was not charged with a crime at the time, which is why he isn't listed in the Delaware or New York sex-offender registry.
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