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	Retired Priest Admits Abuse By Jim O'Hara The Post-Standard [Syracuse NY] June 29, 2007 http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-11/ 1183107375104770.xml&coll=1 A retired Catholic priest who moved to Syracuse after being dismissed from public ministry in Delaware admitted Thursday in Syracuse City Court he sexually molested a teenage boy here over a four-year period. He will receive no jail time. Francis G. DeLuca, 77, pleaded guilty before Judge Kate Rosenthal to one count of second-degree sexual abuse and two counts each of third-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Rosenthal promised DeLuca a sentence of probation and set sentencing for Aug. 27. In pleading guilty, DeLuca admitted he subjected the boy to sexual contact sometime between March and September 2002 when the victim was De 13, sometime between March and September 2004 when the victim was 15 and sometime between March and September 2005 when the victim was 16. DeLuca admitted displaying a pornographic movie to the youth during the 2005 incident. All of the incidents occurred between 10:30 p.m. and midnight in the defendant's apartment on Pastime Drive in Syracuse. DeLuca since has moved. The case has dragged on in court as the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office pushed for a jail sentence for DeLuca and defense lawyer Emil Rossi lobbied for no jail time. Assistant District Attorney Janet Fall told Rosenthal on Thursday the prosecution was sticking to its offered deal to have DeLuca plead guilty to two counts and be sentenced to probation and six months in the county penitentiary in Jamesville.
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