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	Hearing for Accused Priest Expected Today Associated Press, carried in WTSM June 28, 2007 http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6721246 Syracuse, N.Y. - A former Delaware priest is expected to appear in court today in central New York to face child sexual abuse charges. Reverend Francis DeLuca was arrested in October and charged with sexually abusing a Syracuse teen over a period of 5 or six years. Syracuse police say 77-year-old DeLuca confessed after they arrested him. The case has been postponed several times, but DeLuca's attorney, Emil Rossi, expects today's hearing to go forward. He'll appear in Syracuse City Court before Judge Kate Rosenthal. DeLuca was a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington for 35 years. He was dismissed from public ministry in 1993 after being accused of sexually abusing a minor in the 1960s while he was a priest in Delaware.
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