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	Sex Abuse Claim to Be First under New Victims' Rights Law Associated Press, carried in WCAX July 12, 2007 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6778478&nav=4QcS Dover, Del. (AP) - A new Delaware law aimed at protecting the legal rights of victims of child sexual abuse is being tested by an alleged victim of a Syracuse priest. Governor Ruth Ann Minner signed a law Tuesday that abolishes Delaware's 2-year statute of limitations on personal injury lawsuits for victims of child sex abuse. Wilmington attorney Thomas Neuberger says he plans to file a lawsuit today on behalf of an alleged victim of retired Catholic priest Francis DeLuca. DeLuca served in the Diocese of Wilmington for 35 years. He pleaded guilty in a Syracuse (N.Y.) court last month to sexually abusing a boy over several years. DeLuca was arrested in October after a Syracuse teen told his parents he had been sexually abused by the priest from the time he was 12 or 13 until the time he was 17. After allegations of sexual abuse surfaced in the early 1990s in the Wilmington diocese, Bishop Robert Mulvee allowed DeLuca to retire to his hometown of Syracuse. DeLuca faces up to two years in prison when he's sentenced on the New York sex abuse conviction in August.
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