DELAWARE
The News Journal
Written by
Sean O’Sullivan
The News Journal
WILMINGTON — A federal jury is deliberating on an unusual clergy sex abuse case today involving a New Jersey man and a retired Marist Brother.
Brian Elliott, 44, of Cedar Knolls charges that Brother Damian Galligan sexually abused him repeatedly in the mid to late 1970s into the 1980s, from when he was 8 years old until he was 14.
Two of those hundreds, if not thousands, of incidents of abuse occurred in Delaware in the summer of 1981 when Galligan took the young Elliott on a trip to visit Washington D.C., which is what brings the case to the U.S. District Court in Delaware.
The case is one of the last of the wave of lawsuits filed after the Delaware Child Victim Act was passed in 2007, which involves residents of other states who are not able to sue their abusers for acts committed against them when they were children in their home state but allege some part of their abuse happened in Delaware.
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