DELAWARE
The News Journal
[with video]
Written by
Sean O’Sullivan
The News Journal
WILMINGTON — A federal jury awarded $2.4 million Monday to a New Jersey man who was repeatedly sexually abused by a Marist brother some 30 years ago.
Brian Elliott, 44, of Cedar Knolls, N.J., testified that Damian Galligan, a member of the Marist Catholic religious order, sexually abused him starting in 1977 when Elliott was 8 years old and continued until he was 14.
Two of those hundreds of incidents of abuse occurred in Delaware in the summer of 1981 when Galligan took the young Elliott on a trip across state lines to visit Washington, D.C., which is what brought the case to the U.S. District Court in Delaware.
While Elliott said he was abused by Galligan in at least four states – including New Jersey where he lived, New York where Galligan lived and Virginia – it was only in Delaware that Elliott could file a civil suit.
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