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	Delaware Jury Goes Easy on Parish in Abuse Verdict By Randall Chase Washington Post December 8, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120805858.html A Delaware jury that broke precedent by placing some of the blame for a priest abuse case with the local parish has gone light on the punitive damages. The jury on Wednesday chose to make St. Elizabeth's parish in Wilmington pay $1 for its negligence in not preventing former priest Francis DeLuca from abusing a child in the 1960s. The decision came after the jury decided last week that the parish should pay $3 million in compensatory damages. The accused former priest is not getting off lightly: He has been ordered to pay $27 million in compensatory damages and was ordered Wednesday to pay another $30 million in punitive damages. Attorneys for the victim who filed the lawsuit say they don't expect to collect any money from DeLuca.
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