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	Ex-Del. Priest's Sex-Abuse Case Put off By Beth Miller The News Journal [Delaware] January 23, 2007 http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070123/NEWS/70123049 The case of Francis G. DeLuca, a former Delaware priest charged with child sexual abuse in Syracuse, N.Y., was postponed today in Onondaga County Court, a prosecutor assigned to the case said. Today's court date was not expected to produce a major development, Assistant District Attorney Kari Armstrong said. No new date had been set for the pretrial conference. DeLuca, who ministered in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington for 35 years, was arrested in October and charged with sexually abusing a Syracuse teen. The teen, now 18, told his parents DeLuca had molested him over a period of five or six years. Syracuse police say DeLuca confessed after they arrested him. DeLuca was removed from ministry in 1993 by former Diocese of Wilmington Bishop Robert E. Mulvee and allowed to retire in Syracuse, his hometown, after similar allegations arose in Delaware. A few weeks after DeLuca's arrest, Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli released the names of 20 priests against whom the diocese had substantiated allegations of child sexual abuse. Contact Beth Miller at 324-2784 or bmiller@delawareonline.com.
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