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  Another Victim Sues Diocese and Priest

By Peter MacArthur
WDEL
June 6, 2008

http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=371152175766

Another lawsuit's being filed against the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington and a former priest accused of sexually abusing a boy who went to his church.

The plaintiff in the case is a 52 year old man, John Doe #2 as he's called in the suit, claims that in the early 1960's, the Reverend Francis DeLuca tried to kiss him and had sex with him more than a hundred times.

The suit claims that because of a shortage of priests at the time, there was a cover up which allowed clergy members like DeLuca to work at new locations rather than be fired and face charges.

The suit also brings up the chronic and manic depression and panic disorder the vicitm has suffered since the incidents.

 
 

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