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Sixth man sues priest who taught at Sallies

A sixth man has filed suit in Delaware Superior Court against a priest who taught at Salesianum School in the 1980s, alleging that he, too, was sexually abused by the Rev. Dennis Killion.

In the suit, Joseph P. Duffany, now 42, says Killion sexually assaulted him many times -- in classrooms, in the student lounge and the sacristy to the chapel -- when he was a freshman at Salesianum in 1980-81.

He also alleges that school and church officials, as well as the religious order of which Killion is a member -- the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales -- knew or should have known of previous abuse alle...