Daily News | John Delaney, vocal clergy abuse survivor and victim advocate, has died at 50
John Delaney, 50, of Philadelphia, a clergy abuse survivor and vocal victim advocate, died Aug. 26 of a drug overdose.
Mr. Delaney said Bryzski began to abuse him when he was 11 and growing up in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia. He said the abuse continued for a number of years. Longtime family friend Patti Hartman recalled Mr. Delaney as an archetypal Philadelphian: “If I had to describe someone from Philadelphia, I would just show a picture of John,” she said. In addition to being an avid fan of the Phillies, Eagles, and Flyers, Mr. Delaney was also known to many as Rocky, after fictional boxer Rocky Balboa. He even had a Rocky tattoo.
“It was his ‘Welcome to Texas’ packet,” Hartman said. “Anyone who knows John knows the heart he had.”
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