News Journal
September 10, 2007
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070910/NEWS/70910014
Syracuse, N.Y. – A retired Delaware priest is to be sentenced today for molesting a Syracuse teen over a period of about four years.
The Rev. Francis G. DeLuca faces a maximum of two years for abusing the teen, who told his parents what was happening last October.
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| The Rev. Francis G. DeLuca |
DeLuca was arrested, confessed to police, then pleaded guilty to all five charges – one count of second-degree sexual abuse, and two counts each of third-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child – in June. All of the charges are misdemeanors.
When DeLuca entered his guilty pleas, Syracuse City Court Judge Kate Rosenthal said he would probably get no more than probation.
DeLuca is a native of Syracuse, but ministered in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington for 35 years. He was removed from the ministry and allowed to retire to his hometown in 1993, when similar allegations of abuse – dating to the 1960s – were made in Delaware.
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